ANTARCTIC ICE DISAPPEARING? DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT!!!

Image and daily updates via this splendid Bremen University website A naturally occurring event, a MINOR event in world or Antarctic terms, but look how the BBC and other apologists for reporters shout about it. Take another look at this REQUEST TO THE UN IPCC by Arctic expert Syun-Ichi Akasofu in Alaska. LATEST - 1 April 2008:   Environmental expert chides media for reports on Antarctic ice breakage 31 March 2008:   The NEXT Ice Cubes Identified . . .

Jeez, what alarmists won't do to stir up fear: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/surprise-theres-an-active-volcano-under-antarctic-ice Map of volcanoes in Antarctica http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/antarcticvolcanoes2.jpg This image is from NASA, and shows areas with greatest warming in Antarctica are near the peninsula and pacific ring of fire groups of volcanoes: http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov//17529/antarctic_temps.AVH1982-2004.jpg Here is the original article http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17257 But now look at what Wikipedia has done to it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Antarctic_temps.AVH1982-2004.jpg They say "that image is misleading... visit the discussion page"...okey dokey, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_talk:Antarctic_temps.AVH1982-2004.jpg and on that page they say "use alternative image" (GISS maps) instead which is this: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2007&month_last=09&sat=4&sst=1&type =trends&mean_gen=1212&year1=1951&year2=2004&base1=1951&base2=2006&radius=1200&pol=pol And it STILL shows a big red area over the Antarctic peninsula where volcanism is the strongest. Best Regards, Anthony Watts - 25 March 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My own comments, sent via the BBC Contact Us website, on 26 March 2008:

From www.iceagenow.com/CNN_Features_Misleading_Story.htm  My friend Dan Hammer at ClimatePatrol.com has addressed this breathless story about gullible warming in a wonderful manner, so I'll let you read his words. Bob, I am honestly disgusted with CNN.com. On their home page right now their big story is the collapse of a huge chunk of ice in Antarctica as a result of worsening global warming. That is exactly how they play this story out. But lets look at the reality of the situation. It has been proven already that the planet has been cooling for a number of years now. It is the very southern most part of the planet that is leading the charge. Over the last three months the very southern most part of the planet (as observed by satellite) has been no warmer than -0.780 degrees C BELOW normal. What about the size of this huge chunk? I mean if you listen to CNN.com you'd think that something the size of Manhattan or 160 square miles was significant. To a little tiny person it might be significant. But in reality it is a non story. Antarctic ice covers 5,297,000 square miles. This represents at most a loss of 0.00415% Huge? Not at all. If I were to lose four one-thousandth of a percent of anything I'd pretty much consider it to be a non existent loss. I (Robert) would like to point out that much of that 5,297,000 square miles of ice that Dan talks about is one- to two-miles thick, whereas the chunk that broke off was only a few hundred feet thick, which reduces the percentage to an even greater absurdity. I'd also like to mention that the CNN article said "It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years." Doesn’t that imply that the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf wasn’t there earlier than a few hundred years ago? Or 1,500 years ago? Wouldn’t that imply that it must have been even warmer back then than it is today? Did we humans cause that warming, too? You can view the full article here: www.cnn.com ------- Are there any reporters at the BBC or you all just like gooney bird chicks, content simply to sit on the nest, jaws agape, for the next ration of pre-digested vomit to be spewed down your gullets? Sitting in your warm office and as a reflex response, to be engulfed with "news" without even the pretence of professional detachment and scepticism? (With thanks to Rupert Wyndham) back to Home Page   or   Letters Page.