... trends across the bulk of the continent [of Antartica] have been much harder to discern, mainly because data from land stations is scarce.It is somewhat insulated from the rest of the world's weather systems by winds and ocean currents that circulate around the perimeter. In the new analysis, a team of US scientists combined data from land stations with satellite readings
"We have at least 25 years of data from satellites, and satellites have the huge advantage that they can see the whole continent," said Eric Steig from the University of Washington in Seattle.
"But the [land] stations have the advantage that they go back much further in time.
"So we combined the two; and what we found, in a nutshell, is that there is warming across the whole continent, it's stronger in winter and spring but it is there in all seasons."
They conclude that the eastern region of the continent, which is larger and colder than the western portion, is warming at 0.1C per decade, and the west at 0.17C per decade - faster than the global average.
... The scientists said this study did not change that picture, with natural climatic cycles probably involved as well as elevated greenhouse gas concentrations.
"It's hard to think of any situation where increased greenhouse gases would not lead to warming in Antarctica," said Drew Shindell from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) in New York.
"We're almost certain that greenhouse gas increases are contributing to this warming, but what's difficult is to attribute this warming and so say how much is down to natural warming and how much down to anthropogenic causes."
IOW: GORE IS FUCKING LYING WHEN HE SAYS THERE'S A CONSENSUS GLOBAL-WARMING IS MAN-MADE.
- PREDICTION: BY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR THEY WILL BE FORCED TO ADMIT THAT GLOBAL-WARMING IS ALMOST ALL NATURAL AND NEARLY ALL OVER.
- I HOPE OBAMA'S "GREEN BOONDOGGLE" CAN BE UNDONE, AND THAT IT HASN'T DONE FURTHER DAMAGE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY!
I love it when I see the ideologues on the other side sounding just as foolish as their counterparts. Having a healthy amount of skepticism of human caused global warning advocates combined with the same amount of healthy skepticism of deniers of human influence on gobal warming who probably have some position to protect (e.g. auto industry employee, petrochemical employee, etc. ad. inf.) is the only way we will be able to cope with what appears to be a crisis. We will probably not be successful by burying our collective head in the sand.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Obama's green agenda, some of think it is time we remove the Middle East control of our energy supplies. On the other hand maybe the global warming deniers owe fealty to the desert lords.