A group of Korean polar scientists have made the astonishing discovery that summer temperatures in Antarctica plunged by a massive 1°C in just 20 years from 1979-1999 and have since been on pause. Perhaps discovery is too strong a word. The work, which was published recently in a Nature journal, confirms that warming has rather passed Antarctica by in the era of mass global heating psychosis. Other scientists have noted that Antarctica has show very little warming over the last 70 years of accurate recordings. All of these findings are ignored in the mainstream media, where a simplistic opinion that humans control the climate by using hydrocarbons is the main driver of panic designed to implement the evil Net Zero project. Plunging temperatures and inconvenient pauses in Antarctica over 45 years do not play well at a time when carbon dioxide atmospheric levels rose from near-denudation 337 parts per million to 420.
The Korean scientists provide two sets of data to back up their cooling discovery. Recordings from ground stations show cooling of 0.53C a decade between 1979-99 and -0.004C a decade from the turn of the century. ‘Reanalysis’ data is produced with the help of computer models and these frequently show greater warming. In this case the cooling trend is less, but both sets of data show a distinct cooling trend since 1979.
In the graph above, the dashed-dotted and black solid lines correspond to the results from 20 station observations and the ‘reanalysis’ data respectively. The two illustrations below the graph show clearly the degrees of cooling that were detected across the continent. The orange line refers to the stratospheric final warming onset data (SFWOD), which is one of a number of important natural climatic influences which the scientists examined in trying to explain the temperature changes. Meanwhile, the illustrations of temperature change correspond well with a similar one published by Singh and Polvani. It was noted in this 2021 paper that warming had been “nearly non-existent” over the last seven decades.
Singh and Polvani also observed that Antarctica sea ice has “modestly expanded” over the same period, and these findings have been confirmed in other scientific work. Last month, the Daily Sceptic reported on the work of four environmental scientists who found that sea ice around Antarctica has “slowly increased” since the start of continuous satellite recordings in 1979. That doesn’t of course mean that there aren’t short-term cyclical variations in the extent of the ice and these provide a field day for alarmists. A recent “mind-blowing” variation led the science editor of the Financial Times Clive Cookson to exclaim that the entire area “faces a catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events… that will affect climate around the world”.
All is not lost in alarmists circles since they still have an area in western Antarctica they can point at to whip up their politicised climate fear mongering. The area is clearly seen in the maps above showing higher recent temperatures. But quite why a well-mixed atmospheric trace gas with warming properties should only affect one part of the massive ice-covered continent is not clear – no matter, it is the best evidence of ‘global warming’ available. Those who look for the more obvious natural causes of climate change note the presence of volcanoes. Following recent discoveries, there are now 138 identified volcanoes in the West Antarctica Rift System with heights ranging from 300 to 12,600 ft. In 2021, Dziadek et al noted that the “elevated geothermal heat flow band” is exerting a “profound influence on the flow dynamics of the Western Antarctica Ice Sheet”. The area is home to the Thwaites ‘Doomsday’ Glacier, a key poster alarm story with fears of imminent collapse and sea level rise. But scientists have shown that there are significant cycles of ice production in the area that stretch back thousands of years.
Other climatic influences on Antarctica were recently highlighted by a group of New Zealand scientists who noted that the ozone hole high above the continent was as large as ever, despite a 35-year ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFU). UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claimed that the world should be encouraged by an inspiring example of political will and apply the same will to healing the planet. The ozone CFU scare was considered a great triumph in Green alarmist circles – still is, just a shame about the facts. The opening of the ozone layer in the spring seems to be largely a natural phenomenon. The temperatures at this time along with wind patterns are said to greatly effect the event. Dynamic changes from the higher reaches of the atmosphere with the polar vortex affecting climatic conditions are also noted by both New Zealand and Korean scientists.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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The judiciary needs to be put in its place. The people are sovereign. Withdrawing from the reach of the European Court of Human Rights is a necessary condition for the restoration of democracy in England.
BLiar’s UK 1998 HRA act embeds the German Empire’s HR and open borders. This is the ‘legal’ reason why nothing is being done. The uniparty does not care. They all make money from it.
And then put our Supreme Court in its place: no more overreach
No government can protect its people from something that doesn’t exist. This means that this is not about controlling the weather, so what is it about controlling?
“People and all their activities, including birthrates and population growth. resources including oil, coal and gas, rare minerals etc etc”. —–That will just about cover it for starters.
Of course my question was rhetorical.
You asked “so what is it controlling” and I answered. ——–You are correct it isn’t and never was about the climate. —–Infact I would go so far as to say it is about almost everything else EXCEPT the climate.
We’re basically going back to the dark ages.
Instead of witches and the devil it’s global warming. The thing pushed by religious fanatics and used by the sociopathic to crush people in their way.
Plus throw in the odd “pandemic” to ramp up the fear
This is just as crazy as the Canadian idiot suing the govt because he wants them to fund his fetish to have both a prick and a pussy. He can go f- himself (literally and figuratively)
No govt can singularly protect its people from something that, by definition, is global. This is patently absurd. Moreover, “One woman said she could not leave her house for three weeks during the summer.” is not a threat to her life.
What will they do? Provide the populace with Umbrella’s in the winter and parasols and fans in the summer?
Or maybe fairy dust, and lashings of wishful thinking?
As US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his dissent in the “gay marriage” case:
“The Court’s decision today is at odds not only with the Constitution, but with the principles upon which our Nation was built. Since well before 1787, liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits. The Framers created our 2 OBERGEFELL v. HODGES THOMAS, J., dissenting Constitution to preserve that understanding of liberty. Yet the majority invokes our Constitution in the name of a “liberty” that the Framers would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect. Along the way, it rejects the idea—captured in our Declaration of Independence—that human dignity is innate and suggests instead that it comes from the Government. This distortion of our Constitution not only ignores the text, it inverts the relationship between the individual and the state in our Republic. I cannot agree with it.”
Exactly so.
Obama called the Constitution “A document of negative Liberties” . he said “It says what the government cannot do to you, but does not say what the government can do for you”. ———–No doubt protecting us all from climate change would be one of those things Obama and the democrats would want to do for people—-to “protect us”
When St Barry says ‘do for you’ he means ‘do to you’. And that’s what Common Law and Constituions are for, to stop Governments being actively engaged in deciding what you must have.
And in deciding what other people must have, that will be taken from you.
Thanks. I didn’t realise he had said that. No surprise to learn that’s what he thinks, but interesting he was happy to admit to it publicly.
wink
The architectural ugliness of the ECHR building, which resembles a pair of slurry silos, is a metaphor for many of the decisions they take.
“have to protect people from climate change”. ———-Which ofcourse means everything that is contained in NET ZERO. ——We will remove your petrol car to protect you from climate change. We will take away your gas boiler to protect you from climate change. We will take away all the cheap energy and give you expensive energy, we will force you to have a smart meter all to protect you from climate change. ——Basically we will just get the entire GREEN BLOB force you back to preindustrial times with it all to “protect you”———————-ha ha ha ah a jeezus. ——Why am I laughing, because it would only be funny if it was not so utterly PATHETIC
As opposed to protecting ppl from freezing to death in this ice age in which we live.
Doesn’t harm have to be proven?
I have not read up on the three cases. I imagine the complainants have made some vague references to anxiety which makes it all your* fault.
*’Your’ being a reference to whoever they’re complaining about.
Presumably the judges will take their bench down to the beach and get cross when the incoming tide makes their feet wet.
Surely you are not suggesting they are as stupid as a certain king, long ago? Then of course there is the present one. Does nothing ever change?
It is a rather bold assertion that a government has a duty to protect against the natural ordering of things. They might have a duty to protect you from a criminal or an enemy state. This can clearly be seen as part of the social contract. But I don’t see how it could ever be argued that a government has a duty to protect its people from climate change. You might say that any government is duty bound to examine any crisis that might come along or any activity which might be detrimentally affecting the weather but they are attempting to say something different. They have violated logic in the attempted persuance of a scam. Thankfully the whole world is starting to get it. It is as if we, the masses, are some sort of pustule and they will inject needle after needle into it in the hope that it might go away.
They forget they work for us.
Oft quoted here (although phrasing escapes me) “we cannot vote our way out of this”
I’m not completely convinced. So many of the constituencies in the last GE were won with turnouts well under 20k. FPTP is an obvious impediment, but anger is a fabulous motivator, so campaign to make people angry (if they’re not already). Likely we’d be called conspiracists, deplatformed or insulted but I’m politically homeless right now and really pissed off…
I think FPTP should go. Even though countries with PR seem to be doing no better, at least there’s a chance of getting a voice.
“Oft quoted here (although phrasing escapes me) “we cannot vote our way out of this”
Would it be…
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
My advice would be listen to some music and read some poetry because thereis no space in their universe for either. Like Bob Marley him say, we chant down Babylon.
We all know and can feel that something really big is about to happen. And so your humanity should drive you towards how we manage that situation and its aftermath because it will probably mean the end of a lot of things. If we are true Brits and really care about reality then we need to be fine tuned to the reality to come.And given the scale of loss that is going to occur over the next few months there won’t be any room for insincerity. We have achieved a lot on these islands in the last two thousand years and well before and we need to look after each other. That will be the main measure when we are sized up.
We are moving into different times. Lets say you got a suden urge to build a boat in your front room – you and your son. This is where we are at so lets develop an understanding based on humanity because of what is to come. This isn’t going to be the way things were in the past on a lot of levels. This time is very bad for women and girls especially given the progress over the last two hundred years. We aim to keep it together and as men we will protect the female realm I’m sure. All I can say is that I devote my time to keeping things together. I put my life in the way of any attempt to destroy it.
“I put my life in the way of any attempt to destroy it.”
Please explain what you mean.
Physical life is by its nature temporary and inevitably ends in physical death.
On the other hand spiritual life is eternal and cannot be destroyed.
So what are you ‘putting your life in the way of any attempt to destroy it’?
“yet another attempted ideological power grab on the part of a self-selecting and self-serving elite out of touch with reality”.”
Could equally apply to the U.N. NATO and the WHO. Hope she’s noticed though I doubt it.
As many of us have said on this site and others Covid was the test run for Locking us up and taking away our freedoms in preparation for the big one, tyranny and a new world order under the auspices of Climate change and emergency. These people are dangerous and are the enemy of freedom and all that is good about western society. We let them rule us and take notice of their directives at our peril.
Seconded
How is it they get to tell us what to do from inside two large water tanks on stilts?
3 words – Burden Of Proof
What is it, provide it unredacted and be prepared to debate it. We want the raw unsullied empirical data, so we ourselves can apply the Scientific method ourselves, with all necessary rigour, and see if we can replicate their claims and finding.