Antarctic Ice Growing

Antarctic Ice Growing

Posted on April 28th, 2009 Our Changing Climate 3 comments

The South Pole is a hot topic for climate change debate. Contrary to massive melting at the north pole, Ice in parts of the Antarctic are growing, despite global warming. John Turner and British Antarctic Survey may have discovered why.

It seems the hole in the O-Zone layer, created by CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals have given the South Pole respite from global warming. But only temporarily according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

In the North Pole, Arctic sea ice is decreasing fast, reaching a record low in 2007. But satellite images studied by John Turner and the BAS show that Antarctic sea ice is increasing in every month of the year expect January.

“By the end of the century we expect one third of Antarctic sea ice to disappear, So we’re trying to understand why it’s increasing now, at a time of global warming.”

In a new study, Turner and colleagues show how the ozone hole has changed weather patterns around Antarctica. These changes have drawn in warm air over the Antarctic Peninsula in West Antarctica and cooled the air above East Antarctica.

“Over the next 50 to 100 years, the ozone hole will heal, At the same time, greenhouse gases will rise. In next decade or so we should see sea ice plateauing and then decreasing massively if greenhouse gases continue to increase.”

Research earlier this year showed that temperatures in East Antarctica had dropped despite Antarctica as a whole seeing an increase of 0.5°C over the last 50 years. This has been used by Climate Change Deniers as “evidence” against global warming, and in fact claiming that we are experience “global cooling”. Unfortunately this new research marks another win for science over spin.
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3 responses to “Antarctic Ice Growing”
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2. Steve August 31st, 2009 at 17:56
  
  The Antarctic Ice is growing, the Arctic Ice is growing, polar bear populations are up. Sea levels are stable. This is all due to “Global Warming” according to experts who use words like; could, should and might. Every time something shows evidence contrary to what experts said might happen, they regroup and come back with another “could mean” explanation that has no scientific proof. This happens so often that experts no longer want you to refer to “global warming”, instead, they now prefer the term “climate change”. Climate change allows the experts to be wrong in their past predictions.
  
  Theory is not proven science, theory does not include terms like should, could and might. I’m a tool.
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