To funny
But then it could be the Bondi winds and Australian climate change thats caused this..... Or maybe it was the Bogans.....
HHmmm better put a carbon tax on the Antarctic
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2013 was a big year for ice with global sea ice hitting or nearing record highs.
A dramatic example caught the attention of the world Christmas morning, when a vessel hired by group of global warming scientists radioed for help after becoming trapped in ice off Antarctica.
The Russian m/v Akademik Shokalskiy has 74 researchers and crew aboard and they managed to celebrate Christmas despite their frozen predicament.
Chris Turney, who is a professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales, is the leader of the expedition He posted a video to Youtube optimistically predicting that Snow Dragon would reach his position within a few hours, but the ice breaker was forced to turn back. -
Other vessels are headed to the scene and Snow Dragon is waiting and hoping that high winds will push aside some of the ten foot thick ice enabling it to reach the trapped researchers.
The waters around Antarctica experienced remarkable sea ice expansion in 2013 confounding the global warming ice narrative.
Global warming campaigners have been stymied by the lack of any temperature increase in the major temperature data sets since the nineties. (but the alarmist here in Australia and on this forum continue with the scare campaign thats proving to be a huge LIE)
They’ve tried to compensate by feeding the media a steady stream of “extreme weather” stories and with shrill claims about polar ice.
However, historical and scientific data shows today’s weather to be normal.
2013 was in fact particularly tame by many standards with no hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. and data on droughts, fires heat wave, floods, etc. all coming in at or below average.
The global warming campaign seized on northern sea ice in an attempt to find some evidence to show warming.
Northern ice has had a few sparse years recently. Al Gore told COP 15, the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, that the North Pole could be “completely ice free” within five to seven years.
However, 2013 did not cooperate with that narrative either, as northern ice expanded over 50 percent above 2012 levels.
Yachts and research vessels attempting to make news by transiting the Northwest Passage became trapped in the ice and their attempts had to be abandoned. See, Gullible green sailors trapped in the Arctic.
Likewise, alarmist claims about polar bears have run afoul of the facts as polar bear populations continue to expand and
thrive. -
Climate scientists and pressure groups have enjoyed remarkable success at seeing their press statements about polar bears and polar ice reproduced by a compliant media without balance or question.
The information age, however, has granted the public direct access to the unvarnished facts in unprecedented ways.
Web services, such as CFACT’s Climate Depot and social media, publish the data the media ignores.
Global warming hype can’t hold up under the scrutiny.
When the warming crowd attributes fluctuations in northern ice to human activity without basis, and then turns around and blames southern ice expansion on nature, the unbiased observer can’t help but but wonder whether nature is driving both.
Temperature records compiled by NASA, NOAA and the UK Met Office all show no global warming since the nineties, some cooling and very little warming before that.
Climate computer models call for substantial warming which has not occurred. Is the unbiased observer truly to conclude that while nature rules the south, summer northern sea ice will be no more because 2008, for example, was 0.4 degrees above average? This is a classic case of a divorce between correlation and causation, and correlation is no longer looking very good.
Hysterical claims about polar ice are a propaganda talking point aimed to keep the global warming narrative flowing, absent any… well, global warming.
The public continues to catch on.
How long will the legacy media keep reprinting baseless warming claims, without critical examination, when they defy actual data?
Will embarrassing images of yachts and research vessels trapped in ice, which failed to diminish as predicted, help snap the media out of it?
- See more at: http://www.cfact.org/2013/12/28/antarctic-ice-blocks-ice-breaker-sent-to-rescue-climate-researchers-...
@lakeland27 wrote:
World's top climate scientists confess: Global warming is just QUARTER what we thought - and computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong
- Leaked report reveals the world has warmed at quarter the rate claimed by IPCC in 2007
- Scientists accept their computers may have exaggerated
While it is early winter in the Arctic, it is early summer in the Antarctic. Continuing patterns seen in recent years, Antarctic sea ice extent remains unusually high, near or above previous daily maximum values for each day in November. Sea ice is anomalously extensive across the Peninsula, the Amundsen Sea, and the Wilkes Land sectors. However, it has retreated in the northern Ross Sea region—where it had been far to the north of the mean ice edge—to more typical extent locations. Sea ice extent averaged 17.16 million square kilometers (6.63 million square miles) for November. The long-term 1981 to 2010 average extent for this month is 16.30 million square kilometers (6.29 million square miles).
Figure 4b. The graph above shows Antarctic sea ice extent as of December 2, 2013, along with daily ice extent data for the previous year. 2013 is shown in blue and 2012 in green. The 1981 to 2010 average is in dark gray. Sea Ice Indexdata.
Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
High-resolution image
Beginning in October, wind conditions in the Ross Sea shifted from a direction favoring a northward growth of sea ice to a more westerly direction. This and the coming of sunshine and warmth with spring led to a retreat from record ice extents there. However, November brought cool conditions (1 to 3 degrees Celsius, or 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, below the 1981 to 2010 average) around the Peninsula and much of the western hemisphere of the Southern Ocean. Winds have also favored a northward drift along the western Peninsula. Overall, cool conditions and extensive ice around the Peninsula strongly contrast with the past few decades’ shift to a more ice free Peninsula and extensive surface melting there. Palmer Station, the U.S. Antarctic research base, was once again briefly surrounded by sea ice this winter, as it was in 2012.
Overall, the extreme sea ice extent may be linked to strong variations in the westerly wind flow, the main circulation around Antarctica. Strong westerly flow favors ice growth in autumn and early winter, and this was the case; however, as sea ice approached a maximum, the westerly wind pattern abated, allowing ice to drift even further north than usual, in some places urged on by southerly winds.
At the same time, part of the interior has seen record warm winter events, with several daily temperature records set at the South Pole . These warm events are also linked to the reduction in westerly wind strength in August to October. Weaker westerly winds allow more north-south flow into Antarctica, occasionally bringing relatively warm air masses into the interior. Between September 11 and September 15, usually a time of unimaginable cold, four daily maximum temperature records were set, in one case by more than 8.5 degrees Celsius (15.3 degrees Fahrenheit). On September 13, the temperature reached –27.7 degrees Celsius (–17.9 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature more typical of early summer conditions.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
the conspiracy theorists are unaware that in fact they are the dupes of the real conspiracy. while they keep you all frantically busy with 9/11 and illumanati related diversions the climate cover -up carries on unchallenged by the lemmings. FGS nero doesn't even know which is north and which is south. .. i think i'll stick with the scientific community myself, you lot can listen to andrew and plimer the mine-owning geologist. there's no egg on my face , but there's a vacuum behind some faces here thats for sure 
this is the artic
November 2013 compared to previous years.
Figure 3. Monthly November ice extent for 1978 to 2013 shows a decline of –4.9% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average.
Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
High-resolution image
Sea ice is not changing uniformly across space. It is actually growing in some parts of Antarctica.
In other areas, it is diminishing fast. The West Antarctic Peninsula has seen a lengthening of the ice-free period by five days per year for the past 30 years, and sea ice extent in the Arctic is in sharp decline.
Our modelling shows that recent changes in ice and snow cover at the poles have already transformed the amount of light reaching large areas of the Arctic and Antarctic annually. The areas most vulnerable to future change in light are the ones that lose their ice in the months immediately following the summer solstice.
http://theconversation.com/melting-ice-leaves-polar-ecosystems-out-in-the-sun-19807
December 2013, 6.35am AEST
Why the ‘infrastructure PM’ can’t give Antarctica the cold shoulderPrime Minister Tony Abbott recently declared that he wanted to be known as the “infrastructure prime minister”. But what of Australia’s iciest infrastructure – that located in Antarctica?
A 20-year strategic plan for Australia’s Antarctic future was recently commissioned by the federal government, but it will be another six months before Tony Press, ex-director of theAustralian Antarctic Division, reveals his “blueprint”.
So what is best practice when it comes to polar infrastructure, and where should Australia be heading to maintain our status as a leader in Antarctic science and operations?
http://theconversation.com/why-the-infrastructure-pm-cant-give-antarctica-the-cold-shoulder-21059
