Normally, news that it’s cold in Antarctica would rank somewhere behind “dog bites man”, “celebrity says something stupid” and “leftist outed as abuser”. In this case, though, the news is significant, because it’s not just cold in Antarctica, it’s really cold. Record-breaking cold.
When a place that covers nearly 10% of the Earth’s surface, the poster child of “dangerous climate change” no less, exhibits not just record-breaking cold, but a long-term cooling trend, that’s news. But it’s not news that the mainstream media or the climate lobby want you to hear.
The Antarctic interior recorded its coldest April-to-September this year since records began in 1957. According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), the average temperature at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was minus 60.9ºC for the six months. It was also the station’s second-coldest winter (June, July and August) on record, with an average seasonal temperature of minus 62.9ºC. This was an extraordinary 3.4ºC below the long-term average (1881-2010) for winter.
Antarctic sea ice extent also was above average for several months. In late August it was the fifth-highest in the 43-year satellite record.
Naturally, this astonishing occurrence was heavily reported in the media.
Ha, ha, ha.
Australia’s own ABC ignored the event entirely. The Washington Post accidentally reported it but put on the best spin they could. “While the rest of the world sizzled” and “the planet and Antarctica are still warming”.
But is it?
The same media who erupt into fits of the screaming mee-mees every time it gets hot in summer dismissed the record cold in Antarctica as just “weather”.
Besides, Antarctica set a record-high summer temperature, didn’t it? On 6 February 2020, the Esperanza Research Station recorded a high temperature of 18.3°C degrees.
The thing is: Esperanza is at the very northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The Esperanza base is actually outside the Antarctic Circle, which runs 66°33?48.0? south of the Equator. It is misleading – some might say mischievously so – to imply that “record” temperature measurements on the Antarctic Peninsula – less than 5 per cent of the continent — and especially those taken on the “surrounding islands” at its northern extremity, are meaningful for the Antarctic continent itself.
Besides, global warming is causing global cooling, donchaknow?
A recent study concluded that Arctic warming is linked to colder winters. It claims to show that “increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic.” According to one of its authors, Professor Chaim Garfinkel from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University: “There has been a long-standing apparent contradiction between the warmer temperatures globally and an apparent increase in cold extremes for the United States and in northern Eurasia. And this study helps to resolve this contradiction.” Except there was nothing “apparent” about the US cold extremes. They were real […]
Even when no warming is detected, it is apparently still there, invariably “masked” by something else. That at least is what Clem, K. R. et al. suggested in their Nature Climate Change paper last year, “Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades”.
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The paper claims that the South Pole “has experienced a record-high statistically significant warming” over the past three decades. Except that the margin of error is more than half of the claimed effect — an effect entirely generated by climate models, rather than, you know, actual data.
In other news, seismographs are showing a marked increase in activity in the vicinity of Vienna: that would be Karl Popper turning in his grave. As Popper established, a theory that cannot be refuted by any amount of evidence to the contrary is a pseudoscience.
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