Comments on: Massive Ice Chunks Break Up In Antarctica

Huge Chunks Crumbling Away From Shelf Due To Warming; Scientists Warn Of More Instability

[nazdackster]

"Average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years - higher than the average global rise, according to studies" - What studies? NASA says 1.5 over 50 years, WAIS only. The rest of the continent continues to cool as it has for decades. Net impact? Right about zero.

Sea ice? Up a whopping 43% since 1980. Average temperature for Antarctica? -55F. So you want to melt it? Just raise the temperature 87F. You folks are going to have to get a little more imaginative to make the earth cooperate. The media is easy.

Hmm, what else, global temps? Dropping like a brick, wiping out half the so-called global warming over the last century in only a decade. Sun? Quietest in a century, heading for a Dalton type Minimum. CO2 impacts? Latest studies claim hugely negative feedback on non-radiative effects. Total impact of a doubling of CO2? Maybe 0.3F, but that's really pushing it. You'll never measure that above the UHI effects.

Net result? Spend trillions, wipe out the world economy, kill millions for lack of energy, and have approximately ZERO impact on climate. Sounds like a plan. For GE.

[lloydbest1]

"Average temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen by 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 50 years - higher than the average global rise, according to studies."

As expected. Any time we warm up or cool off it is the higher latitudes that get hit first and most noticably. Every climate change model out there has this feature in common. The poles warm up (or cool off) first and fastest.
For those who insist there is a world-wide warming trend and that we are the cause, this is a concern. The one thin silver lining in this cloudbank is we are approaching the Austral winter. Base San Martin, the closest regular weather station to the Wilkins Shelf has had exactly two days above freezing this month and has not seen the temperature reach 20 (F) since the 21st. This should stabilize things for a while. But last summer was a warm one with temperatures in the region soaring into the low 40's. You don't need to be that much above freezing to melt a whole lot of ice and April temperatures have been running about 3 to 5 degrees above average throughout the entire Antartic Peninsula.

[bigsk8fan]

this must be tough for republicans to read and believe. after all, they still think global warming is an al gore myth. they really need to leave this science stuff to thinking people.

...dinosaur's lasted several million years on the planet, mankind won't last 3,000 years, exactly who now is the dumber animal???

[cs4466]

Man is burning too many fossil fuels and religion poisons everything.

[wogerwabbit]

Man is heating Earth because all the sin pleases him.

[mrs_entity]

God is heating the Earth because all the sin displeases him.