Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Even the Antarctic peninsula is cooling
The Antarctic peninsula is the most Northerly part of Antarctica so by reason of that alone is the warmest part of Antarctica. Additionally, it is known to have a degree of subsurface vulcanism, which warms bits of it even more, so it is the part of Antarctica that Greenies normally talk about. A glacier breaking off or splitting there gives them erections. But glacial ice is always splitting off somewhere so what they see proves nothing. I put up something about peninsula glaciers yesterday.
Implicitly, they tend to generalize a slightly warmer area of the peninsula to Antarctica as a whole and regard what they observe as proof of global warming. It has long been known however that Antarctica as a whole is cooling so that claim is just the usual Warmist dishonesty.
The article below, however, rubs salt into the wound. Not only are a few bits of the Antarctic peninsula not typical of the Antarctic, they are not even typical of the Antarctic peninsula. The peninsula overall is cooling too!
Recent regional climate cooling on the Antarctic Peninsula and associated impacts on the cryosphere
M. Oliva et al.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/05/23/even-the-antarctic-peninsula-is-cooling-the-antarctic-peninsula-is-the-most-northerly-part-of-antarctica-so-by-reason-o/
