Our southernmost continent is, we’ve been told, the suffocating canary in the global coal mine. The more ice loss in Antarctica, the greater trouble we’re in. So what do we make of a study which found that between 2021 and 2023, there was a record-breaking increase in the Antarctic Ice Sheet?

We mark it down as another in a long line of misses from the global warming zealots.

“Notably, four major glaciers in the Wilkes Land–Queen Mary Land region of East Antarctica reversed their previous pattern of accelerated mass loss from 2011 to 2020 and instead showed significant mass gain during the 2021 to 2023 period,” says an article in SciTechDaily summarizing the report from Tongji University researchers. //

Outerlimitsfan
an hour ago
Poor Antarctica. Once it separated from South America it was doomed. Before the separation, warm ocean current from near Equatorial regions were able to make it to the coast of Antarctica.

After separation, Antarctic Circumpolar Current formed and isolated the continent. Enabling a frozen wasteland instead of a rather pleasant climate and abundant flora/fauna.(except far interior regions)

Kind of wild how a narrow land bridge between two continents coming apart made such a massive difference. //

WhatNext
2 hours ago
". . .too many of the failed predictions on which the climate scolds base their arguments are not observable or measurable. Why? Because they rely too heavily on garbage-in, garbage-out computer models."

It's not "garbage-in" Ward. Computer modeling of "climate" is based on pre-programmed results set in the code. This is known in the computer industry as "hard-coding" aka "hide the decline". I know this because in 2009 the code for the climate models being used by The Royal Society (no less) was released into the wild and myself - along with thousands of other coders - read the actual code.

This is also the explanation for why the models never reflect the real world.
"Global warming or Climate-is-changing-we-are-all-going-to-die" is nothing but a scam. //

Cafeblue32
an hour ago edited
Antarctica Isn't Melting
It will, though. Eventually, if warming continues, which it should because of cycles in space, both poles will be ice free. It has happened a few times before. The Milankovitch Cycle is just one of many factors affecting climate. CO2 affects it barely at all compared to all the other controlling factors. The are several periods in the past where there was no correlation between C02 and warming or cooling at all.

The Milankovitch Cyle is, in a nutshell, this:

1. Orbital eccentricity-Earth revolves around the sun in a roughly circular orbit. But roughly every 100,000 years, its orbit becomes more eccentric and elliptical.

2. Obliquity variation-Earth Tilt- The next piece of the puzzle is obliquity. Right now, Earth’s obliquity is 23.5°. But during the Milankovitch Cycle, it varies from 22.1° to 24.5° and takes 40,000 years to complete a full cycle.

3. Axial precession- Axial precession is the movement of the rotational axis of Earth. According to the Milankovitch Cycle, precession has a cycle of roughly 23,000 years. Precession occurs because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. It flattens out at the poles and widens at the equator. In addition, the gravitational pull from the sun and moon causes precession.

To recap: The Milankovitch cycles are a set of predictable, periodic changes in Earth’s orbit and axial tilt that influence the planet’s climate over long periods of time. These cycles are thought to be responsible for variations in Earth’s climate, including ice ages and interglacial periods, as they affect the distribution of solar radiation received by the Earth’s surface.

Add in the magnetic fields and gravities of Mecury and Jupiter when in certain orbital alignments and a few dozen other factors and you have never ending climate change.