Climate Change Weekly # 547 — Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative
By H. Sterling Burnett
Published June 20, 2025
Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative
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In late April and early May, mainstream media outlets ran dozens of stories discussing the findings of a recent study that showed Antarctica’s ice mass was growing. The outlets called the ice and snow gain “astonishing,” “surprising,” and “shock[ing]” and said it “startled the scientific community.” Perhaps they were surprised because they rely on climate models to inform them what is or should be happening in Antarctica, or perhaps they found the gains unexpected simply because it didn’t play into the climate crisis narrative.
They may have been astonished or surprised, but I wasn’t. Having examined the data and history, I knew Antarctica has not been following the climate crisis script since the alarm was first raised with James Hansen’s theatrically staged 1988 congressional testimony in which he claimed the Earth was dangerously warming due to human activity.
Climate theory and the models say the warming of the Earth should be greatest at the poles. But while the Arctic has warmed more than the average for the globe as whole, the South Pole has experienced little or no warming. In fact, a 2020 study published in the journal Nature found Antarctica had not experienced any measurable warming for the past 70 years.
https://heartland.org/opinion/climate-change-weekly-547-polar-ice-is-not-following-the-climate-crisis-narrative/
