Cherry Picking Antarctica
March 21, 2022
By Paul Homewood
I was going to cover this, but Tony Heller has done his usually excellent video analysis:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Closer to home -and exactly as predicted three months ago (ironically, by an excellent Russian forecasting outfit) – Spring has come early to Europe.
That means only one thing throughout most of the Ukraine: MUD.
The already ridiculously road-bound, decrepit, Soviet (yes that is what it is) Army with its silly Big-Hat jokes of Generals, will be in even more of a mess.
With a seriously senile U.S. President and an apparently-unhinged Russian President…
This is not the peaceful ‘End of History’ we were promised!
There is actually a word for it: Rasputitsa.
aka “The time of no roads”.
Its not 1941 when there were little roads. Its 2022 when roads and motorways in Ukraine are like anywhere else. It was said that Kiev had abominable traffic jams – up till recently- so Ukrainians have cars like most countries and cars means roads.
Its quite silly to think in 1940s terms
They stayed on your roads, that was their problem…sitting ducks in a 40 mi line…perfect for drones. Then they scttered into the forests for cover…That’s where the mud comes in.
Wasn’t one of the problems with operation Market Garden that the British armour travelled along the roads through Holland allowing anti-tank weaponry to destroy a few tanks and delay the advance for hours while the road was cleared.
Seems to me, IIRC, a certain short French tyrant lost to a certain Mr. Wellington largely because of mud …..
and overconfidence ….
and profoundly obtuse hubris…..
and low soldier morale…..
GO, UKRAINE!
🇺🇦 UKRAINE FOREVER 🇺🇦
Since the U.S. has not declared war on Russia, I assume I still have the right to cheer for Russia.
BTW, that short tyrant wasn’t French. And the guy with the gas mask mustache and the guy who souped up VWs weren’t German.
Here is an example from 2008 of what winter is really like at Dome Argus on the high ice plateau of Antarctica.
Dome Argus is in effect a “Surface to Space thermal radiant factory” that exports a flow of cold dense air down to the coast of the Southern Ocean and out across the sea-ice throughout the austral winter.
I saw this reported by the Telegraph Airhead department. No mention of the all time record cold this winter of course – wrong narrative.
I suspect one of the reasons we get these peaks is the increase in weather stations. Both the Arctic and Antarctic regularly get narrow jet streams, sometimes over the pole, dragging warmer air in from more temperate latitudes over a fairly narrow corridor. In decades gone by, when there were far fewer weather stations most of these surges would have gone unrecorded. This yet another instance of ‘Climate Science’ failing to compare like with like when looking at the record.
Following on from the, I have no idea how many Arctic weather stations there were in 1954, nor how many there are now, and I certainly have no idea of locations. If anyone has links I would be grateful.
Be fair! The Telegraph did say: “Scientists said it was probably just a random weather event, and not a sign of climate change.”
Which is a major step forward in itself!
These are still up with the Guardian in the airhead stakes.
One-eyed doomsters only noticed the outlier in the data, ignoring the overall record – instead of the other way round. But what’s new?
Confirmation bias is rampant, especially when £££££ & $$$$$ reward the ‘right’ answers.
Heller calling out the the glaring error of confusing ice concentration with area was priceless.
Isn’t that interesting that this hot spell in East Antarctica follows the coldest 6 months on record in the area. A similar thing happened in the United States in the 1930s. I think, the winter of 1935,36 was the coldest on record followed by the hottest summer on record. Someone should investigate this “pendulum” theory!
Slightly off topic – I watched the Countryfile forecast for the week ahead and it was very noticeable that he prattled on about the “above average” daytime temperatures completely ignoring the nighttime below zero ones which, for anyone with gardening or farming interests, is , by far, the more important figure.
More hopeless BBC drivle!!!
Interesting how there’s been very little mention of the, apparent, rapidly vanishing sea ice in the Arctic of late. Did anyone notice the BBC reporting that northern sea ice extent actually exceeded that of the ice laden Antarctic land mass this winter, @15 million sq km versus 14 million? Me neither. Any sentient being would think that we were still living in an Ice Age!
And I see that (according to ClimateScience©) ice melts below 0℃. Even at minus 10℃.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
Republican: How many times do we have to prove something is wrong for people to stop believing it’s true?
Democrat: How many times do we have prove something is wrong until people believe it’s wrong?
Democrats would, I have observed, be more likely to say:
How many times do we have to say something bad is good until people believe it is good?