Cold wind blowing: Antarctic ice at 30-year high
Posted by Clyde Middleton
on Oct 17 2009 Filed under Politics.
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And the funny thing is that we’ve only kept records for 30 years. Townhall also covered this.
Marco Tedesco (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York) is the lead author of “An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability.” Without paying the $9 for access, here’s the abstract (the Townhall guy coughed the $9):
A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008–2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980–2009. Strong positive phases of both the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM) were recorded during the months leading up to and including the 2008–2009 melt season. The 30-year record confirms that significant negative correlations exist at regional and continental scales between austral summer melting and both the ENSO and SAM indices for October–January. In particular, the strongest negative melting anomalies (such as those in 2008 and 2009) are related to amplified large-scale atmospheric forcing when both the SAM and ENSO are in positive phases. Our results suggest that enhanced snowmelt is likely to occur if recent positive summer SAM trends subside in conjunction with the projected recovery of stratospheric ozone levels, with subsequent impacts on ice sheet mass balance and sea level trends.
While I am not a climatologist, I can read, interpret, and apply simple English phrases. Here is what I isolate from the abstract:
– 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt
– Significant negative correlations exist at regional and continental scales between austral summer melting and both the ENSO and SAM indices (NOTE: Remember the Warmists told us that global warming would enhance the El-Niño effect and thereby accelerate the warming of the planet? It seems there is a “negative correlation.” Must have lost a +/- sign somewhere in the calcs, eh?)
So, another dagger in the Warmist heart. Is it shocking by any measure that this report has not been pimped by the dead-tree media?
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