quote:Originally posted by NashBama:quote:Originally posted by Cookey:
"Antarctic Ice Increasing"
But artic ice is decreasing at alarming rates. How does a non-scientist weigh all this contradictory evidence?
It's not.
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I'm not posting any more pictures for you, you actually have to read that one.
The assumption in all these stories that report on the Wilkins Ice Shelf, and other melting ice around the Antarctic Peninsula, is that global warming is the cause, and that they are representative of a general melt occurring throughout Antarctica. And if this were true, this would be alarming, since 90% of the world’s land based ice is in Antarctica. So is the ocean warming around Antarctica, and is Antarctica’s overall total mass decreasing?
The answer to both of these questions is almost certainly no. As this recent imagery from NOAA indicates, the southern ocean is actually colder than average.
Nash,
This is a perfect example of your inability to grasp simple facts.
Read the whole post again. A summary: LMM posted data on the Antarctic Ice Shelf increasing. My reply concerned the ARCTIC ice melting.
Then you disagree with me by posting a story on the ANTARCTIC ice shelf increasing.*
Perhaps you never learned that the Antarctic is the body of land at the southern pole of our planet - below South America.
The ARTtic is the northern pole above North America.
This Antarctic data is also a good example of how average folks like you are wholly unable to grasp the complexity of this issue. The fact is that the increase of Antarctic ice is actually believed to be a result of global warming. Link