As a follow-up to last month’s post about a record cold snap at the South Pole, here’s another report about the expanding ice shelf in Antarctica.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Report24:
Attention climate crackpots: 661 gigatons more mass — Antarctic ice shelf continues to grow
Scientists have found that the ice shelf around Antarctica expanded significantly from 2009 to 2019. Since this does not correspond to the common narrative of climate fanatics, the mainstream will certainly largely ignore it.
For decades climate fanatics have drummed into our heads that the polar ice caps are melting and that sea levels will rise dramatically as a result. But somehow the climate propaganda doesn’t accord with reality, as our reports on the Arctic (e.g. here and here) also show. In the Antarctic, people seem to be a long way from being ice-free too.
Three climate scientists from the University of Leeds were now using satellite data to check the condition of the ice shelf in Antarctica. They examined the annual calving position and area of 34 ice sheets, which together make up around 80% of the southernmost continent’s coastline. Among other things, they found that the reduction in area in the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica by 6,693 km² and 5,563 km², respectively, became offset by the increase in East Antarctica by 3,532 km² and 14,028 km² on the large Ross and Ronne-Filchner ice shelves. The largest decline occurred on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, where 5,917 km² was lost in a single calving event that made alarming headlines around the world. The biggest increase, , which was reported somewhat less extensively in the media, was the 5,889 km² advance on the Ronne ice shelf.
The ice shelves provide important support for the glaciers behind them, and these areas are subject to large natural fluctuations. The climate fanatics like to pick large incursions into the sea to support their theories, while studiously ignoring growth in other areas. A very selective approach, which in no way even remotely reflects reality. This is what it looks like:
A total of 18 ice shelves are said to have retreated and 16 larger platforms increased in area. In total, the shelves have gained 661 gigatons in mass over the decade. The scientists note that using a “stable” process, meaning no change in any variable, would result in an estimate of a significant loss over that period. They argue that their work demonstrates the importance of using “time-varying observations of calving flow to measure change.”
One of the reasons for the ice melt in the western part of Antarctica is likely to be various volcanoes. 91 of them were not discovered until a few years ago, bringing the total number of active volcanoes there to 138. The ice melt in this region has absolutely nothing to do with the ominous “climate change” itself. A fact that scientists also pointed out in a study. Another paper also shows that since reliable satellite measurements began, there have been “no significant changes” in the annual sea ice coverage in Antarctica.
The more one deals with this topic rather than selectively considers those studies and investigations that support the theses of the climate fanatics, the faster one will come to realize that it is all much more complex and multi-layered than people are led to believe. The only question is how much longer do people want to be fooled by the climate radicals?
Afterword from the translator:
I guess that these scientific findings will soon be censored to such a degree that only the high priests of the Church of Global Climate Change will be allowed to read them, and then burn them. Just like it was with the Catholic church, every layperson who read the Bible, in Latin or later the translations, made himself a target of the Inquisition, and if found guilty as a heretic, a resulting auto-da-fe. All the “crimes” perpetrated by these “elites” that have been unearthed and made public over the years and have made NO difference for the vast majority make me feel quite often like Tantalus in Hades. Every time I approach water to slake my thirst, it turns to dust. Right now we’re trying to sink a cork with a hammer, and what we need to do is take the cork and burn it.
In the beginning when it was still largely within the scientific realm, the old professor in a social setting said that it reminded him of the seventies ice age movement but that maybe it will bring about a possibility for science to address the real issues that had been ignored for decades. This was the reason for allowing such a high degree of speculation. The two main issues can be found in any ecological text book of old – land clearance and introduced species which continue to accelerate to this day, indeed the bored kids at their fridays for future are probably ordering exotic pets on their mobiles which they will later set free. Our economic framework has ecology as an externality and can record destruction as a positive. I have therefore taken an interest in ecological economics and found that it is still stuck in wouldn’t it be nice if. In practice it would take five minutes for the next stalin to implement no people no problem. About a decade later a senior scientist was bemoaning that all funding was granted to climate change projects, therefore an unknown was being attached to an unknown ie our current understanding of natural processes. Too late. It was already at stage ludicrous with reflexive rejection of sceptics, in large part because they were associated with pecuniary interests. Very shortly thereafter we saw the unstoppable rise of adolescent outrage created in the new indoctrination institutions formerly known as schools. Academics are only just surviving on the blood of undergrads in their little fiefdoms whilst supporting the bloated parasite of bureaucracy, and they have no time or energy or inclination to read a report about ice let alone one that runs counter to serving of Power. In short we have reached a point where the monster is underpinned not by science but by compromised cowed people who were possibly once scientists. The target of your title is inappropriate because they are following the science and to paraphrase Bismark, the people sleep better at night not knowing how their sausages or science is made
Does anyone know if in Artic is the same?
It shouldn’t.
I think it’s a 70 year cycle called the “Artic swing”.
When one side “melts” the other side freezes and increases.
If it’s happening on both sides, I guess we’re in deep, deep trouble.
With all that fresh water trapped in Ice, the planet will get dryer and colder – bar along between the Tropic of Capricorn and Cancer and obviously the Equator – rainfalls might become scarce in certain places and famines will spread.
But if your aim is to depopulate the Planet of all LIFE, then I guess that the PTB’s have no interest in telling the truth.