In response to the barrage of recent posts by a certain member of this board, the vast majority of which reflect, and discuss nothing more than the output of computer models, I am going to post some recently published papers based on actual observation. The contrast is remarkable.
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This paper, recently published in the Journal of Climate finds that most of the climate models predicted, in error, that the Antarctic Sea Ice extent would decrease over the past 30 years. This is a considerable deviation from actual observation as the Antarctic sea ice is currently 2 standard deviations above the 1979 - 2000 average. More evidence of the abject failure of climate models.
Let's attempt to retake our Science 001 course in summer school and I'll tutor you thru it!
First off, the premise that global warming will affect antarctic sea ice extent by reducing it is faulty. The only antarctic sea ice that remains after a minimum is sea ice caught in gyres allowing it to exist for a time, so basically the sea ice during summer is zero around Antarctica, each year. If it grows larger during a winter, because the winds change to stronger driving sea ice further to sea or there is more snow cover temporally increasing it's quality with increasing temperatures, does it make a difference? It's all going to melt anyway.
The Antarctic has two ice sheet on it the eastern or EAIS and western called WAIS and Greenland has one called GIS. There is also a small one in Patogonia, that's already divided in two. The scientific evidence clearly shows it was warmer, got colder and became warmer.
Oh, it ain't us or whatever you like to believe, but the facts are except for us introducing CO2 into the atmosphere, science has no answer to why our planet is currently warming and not slowly cooling, like it should do.
Of course the models are wrong, but it's the north that will warm much faster than the south just as the models predict, because the models are way too conservative in their predictions and it's the north, where people live, that's a concern for mankind. O' gee, the models are wrong and people like you aren't? Well, that's very comforting!
What the hell do you people want? Do you want cheap energy, then get governments to work together and make thorium MSR reactors. These reactors can't meltdown or be used to easily make nuclear weapons and we've known about them since the '50s. There's 4 times as much thorium on Earth than uranium. Science can only show opportunities and has never had the power to make mankind act. Countries didn't develop thorium technology, because they can't easily make nuclear weapons out of it.
Try a little research on your own and we'll get you thru that Science 001 class! No tutor can take the class for you.
