Arctic sea ice re-freezing at record pace.
The government is now back paddling global warming rhetoric and is now calling it “climate change.” They are still using imaginary bogus human caused, “climate change” as a tool for societal manipulation however. You can’t argue with any kind of statement about “climate change” because the climate does change.
The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this last (northern) summer 2007 and all led to a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November 2007, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day or 10 days in late October and early November 2007—a record.
The record melting of Arctic sea ice this last summer 2007 was widely viewed as a harbinger of global warming, though unusual wind patterns played a role and many actors affecting fluctuations in Arctic ice are poorly understood by scientists.
Here’s how NASA explains the record re-growth o ice over that 10-day period in October and November. “Record sea ice growth rates after a low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected. The more ice that survives the summer melt, the less open water there is or new ice to grow. When summertime ice extent hits a record low, on the other hand, large areas o open water provides room for the ice to grow. While summer warming of the upper ocean surface can cause wintertime sea ice re-growth to lag initially, as the all season progresses and sunlight weakens, the rate o energy loss rom the ocean increases. The heat loss, coupled with large areas o open water created ideal conditions or sea ice to form rapidly over large areas. (Source: The Daily Green, 2 December 2007. http://tinyurl.com/2839cb )
Once again the earth heals itself.
Antarctic ice level grows to new heights.
The southern hemisphere (Antarctic) has quietly set a new record or most ice extent since 1979.
The southern hemisphere area ice coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up or the total Antarctic ice extent.
While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the southern hemisphere summer, the interior o Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere had been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent.
{One contributing factor to record Antarctic ice growth is the fact that Antarctica has an average altitude of 6,500 feet above sea level.} Polar research stations are constructed atop 20-foot high pipe platforms. The ice level is building at 5 feet per year. They get five years out of a habitation before they have to dig down to get inside.
Indeed according to NASA Giss data, the south Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about one degree Fahrenheit since 1957, and the coldest year was 2004. This winter (2007) has been an especially harsh one in the southern hemisphere, with cold and snow records set in Australia , South America and Africa .
In January, a paper appeared in Geophysical Research Letters entitles “A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850”. The article is with the British Antarctic Survey and the Desert Research institute in Reno , Nevada , USA .
(Sources: ICECAP, International climate and Environmental change Assessment Project, 2 September 2007 , http://tinyurl.com/29e5lb ; Geophysical Research letters, vol, 35, 12 January 2008 ) also: www.GuardDogBooks.com
