Antarctic Sea Ice Volume Greater Than The Early 1980s
December 21, 2023
By Paul Homewood
There was much scaremongering from the alarmist community when Antarctic sea ice extent fell earlier in the year. As the Antarctic summer begins, the melt has slowed down, to the extent that extent is not even the lowest since 1979, and it is higher than in 2017:
https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/
But much more important is the fact that sea ice volume remains higher than the early 1980s, thanks to the fact that it is much thicker than normal around the peninsula:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Try as I might, I can’t get worried about Antarctica. Has everyone noticed that it looks like a very curtailed El Niño with neutral next autumn, rising La Niña? That’s about a year. Last La Niña was c. 33 months. So cooling plateau again? Pause? Break out the woolies
The temperature the sea ice freezes and thaws is the thermostat setting.
The sea ice is the control. When Antarctica needs more land ice, it slows the flow of land ice into the turbulent salt water currents and allows the sea ice and some ice shelves to be removed, this promotes more evaporation and snowfall on land and more ice sequestering. It snows more until the land ice is replenished, then more ice is pushed into the turbulent salt water, chilling the water to add back the sea ice, then the snowfall on land slows down until the next time that more land ice is needed. This the cause of alternating warmer and colder time periods with less and more sea ice. These are natural cycles and the high and low sea ice periods are both natural, normal, self correcting and necessary.
Check the ice core records:
Ice accumulations are most in warmest times and colder times always follow. Ice accumulations are least in coldest times and warmer times always follow.
There is no steady state stable condition in between, there are always alternating warmer and colder time periods, check data and history to verify this.
Ice sequestered on land is always flowing and being pushed into the oceans or to warmer places where the ice is always thawing and depleting. From time to time, the oceans must get warm enough and the sea ice and ice shelves must be reduced such that evaporation of ocean water and snowfall on land can rebuild the sequestered ice on land. Loss of sea ice and ice shelves is not any kind of disaster, it is necessary factors in maintaining enough ice on land to prevent global warming..
Your time will be different, but for me Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 4:38 pm PST (U. S. western) Earth will be at “perihelon“, only 91,404,095 miles from our Sun.
Folks on the under-side of Earth should wear shiny aluminum foil hats and watch the beaches for rapidly rising water. Antarctica will be flowing your way soon. 🙂
No, Antarctica will not lose any ice over this, the sun powers the ice machines, the sun powers the warming of oceans that removes sea ice and promotes the evaporation and snowfall that maintains the ice on land. Thawed oceans are necessary for rebuilding the land ice on Antarctica, frozen oceans allow the land ice to deplete.
Antarctic ice core records show that most of the ice on Antarctic in the great ice sheets was put there in times warmer than now.
The arctic is floating ice and the island of the antarctic is gaining more ice ….is the rise in sea level just a myth
No it has been increasing at about 2 to 2.5 mm per year since recording at tide gauges and for the last 5,000 years from proxies. The rate change was caused by satellites using 45 cm wavelength to measure this annual change on a surface in perpetual motion from tides and the orbits around the sun of earth moon and large objects in the solar system. Since the tide gauges did not change then the model used to convert radar values into mm per year is inaccurate just like all the climate cult models…. if you cannot data match and model history then you do not have a model of anything.
All this happy horseshit affects me how?
Antarctica has different amounts of sea every year. So f&^%ing what? It affects NO ONE. WHY SHOULD ANYONE CARE?
No climate scares or Hollywood-style sea ice dramas at either pole? How dull 😴
I have begun to see ads on YouTube for trips to Antarctica. Over the past number of years, the greenies who ventured there to cry over the devastion from global warning have been caught in massive storms. They even had to be rescued by a Russian ice-breaker.
I’ll stay home and shovel the “global warming” on my driveway, thank you very much.
The believers do not seem to be able to decide WHY “a decline in ice” should matter, anyway. They started out with a relieved sigh of “this is the canary in the coalmine,” some twenty years ago, but war weariness – that nothing much does seem ever to result from declines and melts – has led to the adoption of a new narrative; Gaia in its wisdom decided a long time ago, once and for all, that having a tenth of the globe a frozen nothingness is essential to cosmic balance; in other words, ice is a precious gift to us. And we had better not blaspheme by melting any of it!
What is ignored about the Antarctic is that the north west has dirty great volcanic plumes under it warming the sea bed. As a result an ice shelf develops out to sea and in the early stages the warmer water escapes to the surface beyond the shelf. As the shelf gets bigger it no longer does and so melts the inshore ice near the from underneath. The shelf gets ‘thicker’ because of all the snow on top, but eventually the thinning ice tying the shelf to shore can no longer withstand the forces the wind exterts on the shelf, it breaks off, and we go round again.