More Evidence for Global Warming
... or not.
Via Powerlineblog, Icecap is reporting that “the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979.”
They report further:
While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This dichotomy was shown in this World Climate Report blog posted recently with a similar tale told in this paper by Ohio State Researcher David Bromwich, who agreed “It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now.”
Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the coldest year was 2004. [...] This winter has been an especially harsh one in the Southern Hemisphere with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa.
I’ll note that that since global warming models predict that the main region where mean temperatures are supposed to rise is at the poles, this is a very problematic result.
