Chjris' Global Warming Blog

Antarctic Sea Ice Up Over 43% Since 1980, Where Is The Media?

Sea ice at Antarctica is up over 43% since 1980 and we hear nothing in the news, yet Arctic ice is down less than 7% and they're all over it! We've been waiting for the main stream media to pick up on the increase of Antarctic ice but so far they're been totally absent. Guess it doesn't fit the plan.
Of course it doesn’t fit “the plan”. “The plan” is to make the people think ice is constantly melting at both poles because of a 10% increase of CO2 (which works out at 0.0038% of the atmosphere), and keep the people ignorant, so they’ll be willing to give up their money, their freedoms and their rights because, as we all know, we all breathe out carbon dioxide (CO2).


From the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado

Still no sign of the national media on the extraordinary growth of sea ice at the Antarctic. They sure haven't missed a chance to point out the relatively small loss of ice at the arctic. Did it ever occur to them that perhaps there is a natural process at work that has shifted ice growth from one pole to the other? Do they not want to admit that there are things man doesn't yet understand about how this planet works?
But the thing is, we do know how it works. . .there’s just a large majority who are ignorant from it because they only get their information from the mainstream media – who, as we know, will not cover it because it’ll blow a massive hole in their plan. It works like this: The Earth is tilted on it axis slightly by 23.5 degrees. This effect is what drives the seasons. And, as we all know, the seasons are opposite in the opposite hemisphere. So, if it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and etc.. But what a lot of people don’t know is that when it’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the 23.5 degree tilt is large enough to shade the entire Antarctic from the Sun for close to 6 months and vice versa. This is why the media change their global warming watch from North to South around September and October and South to North around March and April. And during the winter months in a chosen hemisphere, while the chosen pole is tilted away from the Sun, the region is cold enough that all melt from the summer freezes back. Which can give the effect of constant melting if the coverage is designed to look that way, or if desired, it can look as if there’s constant freezing by simply reporting on the each of the poles in their respective winters instead of their respective summers. . .if the mainstream media desired you to believe in an imminent ice age, of course. Which, in theory, proves that global warming is manipulated by the mainstream media. . .but, we already know that, don’t we?

Remember that some of the “models” predicted increased Antarctic ice, but they predicted increased “interior ice” due to increased snow fall. None of the models predicted increased sea ice around the Antarctic. Yet that is what we have, and not just a little increase but a 43% increase since 1980!. This is highly significant yet hardly anyone in the main stream media (MSM) is talking about it.
The reason for this, as I’ve pointed out, is because it would blow boles in the official rhetoric of global warming.

Sea ice is much different than interior ice. Some of the models predicted increased ice over the interior of Antarctic. If you've ever lived in the extreme cold temperature regions you already understand this. When it gets very cold the air become drier and it snows less, as the temperature warms towards freezing it actually snows more. Since the Antarctic rarely even gets close to freezing it’s understandable that warming would cause more snow fall. Over time compacted snow would lead to more ice. But that is not what is happening here. We're seeing a dramatic increase in “sea ice”, this ice is over the ocean. Sea ice is caused by colder temperatures, not by increased snow fall. An increase of 43% is highly significant, but we hear nothing from either the MSM or the scientific community. Especially compared to the out 6%-7% decrease at the arctic (this isn't year over year, this is a 6% decline since 1980!).
This more or less confirms a report I read that says it’s not “global” warming because most of the warming that occurred in the past 150 years occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, while temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere stayed relatively the same.

Antarctic Sea Ice for March
Extent Concentration
2009 5.0 million sq km 2.9 million sq km
1997 3.8 million sq km 2.2 million sq km
1980 3.5 million sq km 2.0 million sq km
This is an increase of 45% for ice concentration since 1980. This continues a long trend that has been noted here for several months.

Interior ice is also increasing but not due to warming as the models have predicted. According to NOAA GISS data winter temperatures in the Antarctic have actually fallen by 1°F since 1957, with the coldest year being 2004. All the while global CO2 levels have gone up and the main stream media has been reporting near catastrophic warming conditions. They regularly show Antarctic sea ice shelves breaking apart, which is an entirely normal process (though they never tell you that part). The main stream media and certain segments of the scientific community truly must have no shame.
The power of shame outweighs the power of money. Another thing the MSM won’t tell you is how H2O expands when it freezes and contracts when it melts, displacing the same amount in either state, so if the ice caps did melt, there would be no rise in sea levels. And as the whole fear of global warming, or most of it anyway, derives from sea level rise, and people and animals on low-lying grounds losing their homes and lives because of sea level rise, it discredits a large portion of the scam in itself.

If you have doubts about the increase in ice you can run the numbers yourself at the National Snow and Ice Data Center's website (part of the University of Colorado and funded by the National Science Foundation).

And if you want to read something really amusing take a gander at Michael Asher Blog about climate modellers trying to explain Antarctic warming.... agh .. cooling....agh... warming it's delightful.