New studies affirm Antarctica has not been cooperating with either the global warming or 'polar amplification' narratives. (1)
The Antarctic continent has not warmed in the last seven decades despite a monotonic increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. (2)
Mankind has emitted fully 65% of our total carbon emissions since the year 1980, and yet it has not done much at all to the melt rate of the ice shelves of Antarctica. Despite the dreaded 'polar amplification' and 1,000 new coal fired plants in China, the fragile Antarctic ice shelves have barely changed in the last 40 years. Indeed, instead of fragmenting, they are melting slightly slower now than they were in 1980. That's 1.1 trillion tons of man made CO2, and no catastrophe to show for it.
Antarctica is shivering through an extreme bout of cold
Note that a 'small but significant decrease' in melting gets headlined as 'a minor change.' Contrast this where significant warming trends are always reported as major changes.'
Remember climate change was supposed to hit Antarctica twice as hard as anywhere else. (4)
Antarctica is shivering through an extreme bout of cold, even by South Pole standards. The Italian-French research station Concordia posted a reading of -83.2 C (-117.8 F) on July 25. This ranks as the fifth coldest value in the operational life of the station. (5)
The temperature trend at the Japanese station Syowa, also called Showa, has been modestly downward since 1973. (6)
The Alfred Wegner Institute reported that sea ice development in both polar regions was at normal levels. (7)
A new model expects more snowfall in Antarctica and the Antarctic ice mass is even expected to remain unchanged and stable overall this century. In this respect, Antarctica will probably make no contribution at all to global sea level rise by 2100. This reduces the rise in sea level to be expected in this century by 25%. (8)
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