What Sky Did Not Tell You About Antarctic Ice
By Paul Homewood
Utter garbage on Sky News:
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1688985954059530240?s=20
The video makes two claims:
1) “The record low sea ice extent is due to higher ocean temperatures and warmer air.”
They do not mention that ice extent was at a record high as recently as 2014.
Nor do they mention that the ice has not “gone missing”, as they claim, but strong winds have pushed it polewards. As a result, the ice is thicker than normal:
https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
Nor do they mention that temperatures are well below normal in Antarctica currently, about minus 30C. Not the heatwave they claim is happening, which they dishonestly base on one day in March 2022:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2&ortho=1&wt=1
2) “Sea levels have risen by 17mm since the 1990s because of melting Greenland and Antarctic ice. By 2100, another 170mm will have been added.”
In fact, according to DMI, all of that 17mm has been caused by melting of Greenland glaciers, something which has been going on since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19thC.
Some studies even suggest that Antarctica is actually adding ice, because of greater snowfall.
As for the 2100 projections, they are pure junk, just like this Sky News video.
https://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8518750
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
FT has written this up today as a “shock, horror” front page paragraph with a large photo of Antarctic ice melting on land and sea….
Then a repeat piece expanding inside, and finally a rant opinion piece by Pilita Clark. Once upon a time the FT was a reliable paper that checked its facts….
“Ice retreat threatens world with environmental upheaval”. Main headline.
Yes John,
I have relied on the FT for most of my 60 year career; no longer! Their “moral money” newsletters, financed by large banks and financial institutions, infer that we AGW and “net zero” sceptics must be “immoral”. If not positively evil!
Hugh,
I’m afraid I agree totally. I worked in the City as a bond dealer, and we had regular joint seminars for clients with Sam Britten, Barry Riley used to come to our offices for a daily briefing on the gilt market, and the FT was our staple broadsheet. I’ve subscribed for pretty much the same period as you, but I now just take it twice a week for an odd glance, and to read Life and Arts on Saturday, which is still worth reading. I’m afraid many of the news articles are slanted — and I refuse to just accept this any longer.
Well done Paul – yet more accurate information we need to keep pushing back on the climate alarmism that seems to have gripped the silly MSM
Something similar on ITV News last night. They must have had a get together over their Starbucks
Surely you mean soy lattes?
Is that something like a coffee?
No, nothing like coffee but favoured by the alarmist grifters
Looking at that map image it’s obvious there’s nothing occurring beyond normal variation. Sea ice extent isn’t set by law, variations are part and parcel of the natural world.
The sea ice extent can be easily checked by satellite , and a bit smaller area gets the loonies shouting it from the rooftops .
But sea and wind conditions have piled it up higher , up to 8 times thicker .
https://notrickszone.com/2023/05/29/new-study-destroys-doomsday-glacier-narrative-todays-ice-8-times-%f0%9d%98%9b%f0%9d%98%a9%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%a4%f0%9d%98%ac%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%b3-than-last-8000-years/
There is a “thumb up” emoji 👍
Holding my hand in such manner, top to bottom, is about the 170 mm of claimed sea level rise by 2100.
Grab your “Go Bag” and run for the hills!
Millions will drown!!!
I’ve read that many elites have brought homes very near the sea!!! Now would they if sea levels going to engulf the world🤔
“homes very near the sea”
I have not found one where the house and buildings are less than 3 m above.
Property often does have a shore and maybe a boat dock. A few claims, when investigated, actually say “ocean view” and the property may be on a slope or cliff 1/2 km away or more.
You can be fined, if not jailed, if you choose to publish false information likely to cause egregious public harm. Why don’t we prosecute?
There are so many alarmists who claim we must maintain the status quo, but who are they to decide what that is? When farming was the norm in Greenland what was the sea level (ancient as it would be) in places like ancient Florida? Was the climate then so deadly?
What have we here, laddie? Projections! Projections, everybody!
And why use The Battery as an example? Using The Argentine Islands, which are actually in Antarctica, the annual rise is 1.28 mm/yr giving a rise of 4 inches by 2100…
Classic.
@Gamecock.
Yup, another brick…😉
A geologist, James Kamis, believes that there are two quite separate eastern (80%) and western (20%) parts to Antarctica. The larger eastern side is cold, inactive and gaining snow and ice and the smaller western side is part of the Pacific Ring of geologcal faults and hence subject to geologcal heat causing melting :
James E. Kamis: Geological Impacts on Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #121
He’s correct. The Western 1/8 is unstable due to tens of sub sea volcanoes.
Sea level 1000 years ago was 15 feet higher than today. See Harlech castle sea gate for details.
‘Ice has gone missing in Antarctica’ some of these people from sky should go and take a visit down there and get a dose of reality . .
. . . and get their boat stuck in the “missing” ice.
Akademic Shokalski! Ships, I see no horizons…
Recent study…
Unraveling the contributions of atmospheric rivers on Antarctica crustal deformation and its spatiotemporal distribution during the past decade
Published: 31 July 2023
‘Our results reveal that the AR snowfall contribution to Antarctica primarily ranged from 9.28 to 29.73 per cent from 2010 to 2019, and there was an evident *increasing trend from 2015 to 2019* (20.66 per cent in 2015 to 29.30 per cent in 2019).’ [highlight added]
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggad306/7234337
Each weather station on Antarctica covers, on average, 100,000 square miles. Weather claims for Antarctica should be viewed with skepticism. Two decimal point precision is hilarious.
I noticed that Mawson station recorded an ‘alarming’ temperature of minus 12.6℃ in this their winter season, a bit more than the average (since 1955) of minus 13.5℃. One the other side of Antarctica the (Japanese) station showed a “high” of minus 15.3, which was the ELEVEN highest since 1957.
What annoys me most is that these one-sided nonsense-broadcasts never use a person who does not sing the billionaires song. The main stations are totally biased and people are beginning to see that Goebbelites have taken over the climate debate and this is why their viewing figures are in free-fall.
They know *nothing* of what they parrot from the script / teleprompters.
The creative (for it surely qualifies) key talent producers and editors need a namecheck – I’m guessing there’s more than one orange hi-viz JSO gilet in the glove box of an £80k++ Mercedes in the Osterly car park.
The record for The Battery goes back to 1855, well before widespread fossil fuel usage. That the rate of rise of sea level trend is unchanged is damning for CAGW
Put simply:
lack of acceleration = no change in rate of heat input to the Earth’s surface = no reaction to fossil fuel CO2 = no climate crisis
Unskilled model projections are unnecessary… it’s 99.9% natural
Correct. SLR has been cruising along at the same rate for a hundred years.
When they hyperventilate about _____ melting, and the SLR rate doesn’t change, it completely FALSIFIES all their assertions.
In Sydney Harbour the gauge in Fort Denison actually showed a slight decrease since 1914, from 1.11 metres to 1.05 metres in 2019.
Speaking to Sky News Mr Fitzhenry said the BOM started mean sea level records in 1914, and the data shows them rise and fall within the range of 15 centimetres. He said levels are affected daily by the moon’s rotation around the earth, and the planets moving around the sun in elliptical orbits.
Minimum 0.97 in 1944 and highest in 2014 (at 1.12 metres).
The scientists are baffled – because they measure ice in 2 dimensions i.e. surface extent. Clueless.
Thanks. It appears this years ice volume is one of the lowest in the last 40 years but overall the last two decades have been at least as high as the 20 years before.
The surface area might be a bit smaller , but the total volume is the highest for a long time due to ice sheets piling up on top of each other .https://notrickszone.com/2023/05/29/new-study-destroys-doomsday-glacier-narrative-todays-ice-8-times-%f0%9d%98%9b%f0%9d%98%a9%f0%9d%98%aa%f0%9d%98%a4%f0%9d%98%ac%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%b3-than-last-8000-years/
I may not understand your article, but I was just commenting on the last few years/decades. If you look at the website he gave, https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
And scroll down about 2/3 to the end there are charts on ice volume for the past 40 years. This years seems low, for whatever reason, but theres no steady trend for shrinking ice volumes.
And I presume – with some certainty – that Sky News won’t be covering the good news that the Great Barrier Reef has shown a continuation of last year’s record growth. Neither will it make the BBC/Guardian. Not going well for the poster children of the ecofascists – lots of polar bears, abundant coral on the GBR, snow on Kilimanjaro, etc
Or that polar bears are thriving, or that the Antarctic recently had its 5th lowest recorded temperatures
I came across this about an undersea eruption that sent an enormous amount of water in to the stratosphere where it still is. Apparently it has affected the ozone layer and has probably added to the water vapour around the world.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/what_nasa_and_the_european_space_agency_are_admitting_but_the_media_are_failing_to_report_about_our_current_heat_wave.html
I was unaware of the event and it probably didn’t receive any attention by the BBC or Sky although it’s affects will last for several years apparently.
Off topic but the head of the Irish Meteorological Service was on the National News today and unleashed an avalanche of alarmist nonsense.
One of the things he said he was that July Arctic sea ice extent is at record lows. I assume this is nonsense but can someone give me some hard facts and I’ll try and hit back by writing to the dailies.
Arctic sea ice is about 7 million Squ Km at the moment .Nearly all of the last 10 years it has been less at this time of year .
And another of their favourite lies is that , if all of the ice in the Arctic circle melted , it would raise sea levels . Everybody should know that is physically impossible .
Correct ITRW – If only climate alarmists hadn’t stopped practising real, empirical science, instead of inexperienced consensus
See here: https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
The record minimum was 2012 for the Arctic. The Irish Met office may have meant the Antarctic.
Unfortunately the sea ice thickness data has been misread in this post, it actually shows that the sea ice is thinner than normal.
That’s my interpretation of the diagram. Roughly twice as much red (thinner) than blue (thicker), and quite a bit in the deeper red range whereas very little in the deeper blue range.
The Sky (& BBC) Science Depts are bereft of any science background, likely all ex art grads with left leaning tendency
They do not see the mathematics of objects (Geometry) and that length & width can all be moved up and down, which affects its volume, yet keeps the object as a mass, exactly the same size
God give me strength