Global Warming blamed for antarctic snow growth as data wrong again, Putin says warming is fraud

theglobaldispatch.com ^ | Mon, Nov 2nd, 2015 | Brandon Jones

[Trumpinator]

Gobal Warming blamed for antarctic snow growth as IPCC data wrong again, Putin says warming is a ‘fraud’

Warming equates to more snow is the latest update from global warming enthusiasts as the latest report from NASA and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) points out that from 1992 to 2001, Antarctica was estimated to have gained 112 billion tons of ice every year. Even when growth slowed, it still continued, adding 82 billion tons of ice during 2003 t0 2008.

“We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology.

“Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”

Climate change advocates are quick to say that none of this means global warming isn’t happening, but it does indicate some sensationalism may be at play by environmental activists and their reports.

Zwally said that the IPCC report suggested a yearly 0.27 millimeter sea level rise was attributed to Antarctica, a claim that is likely not true according to NASA’s findings. Antarctica’s ice gains illustrate that the continent is actually responsible for reducing the Earth’s sea level by 0.23 millimeters per year. This is bad news, he explained, as the measurement made in the IPCC report must be coming from a different, unknown source.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made headlines this week for calling global warming a “fraud”:

“The Russian public heard little mention of climate change, because media coverage across state-controlled television stations and print media all but ignored it. On national TV, the villains were locals who routinely but carelessly burn off tall grasses every year, and the sometimes incompetent crews struggling to put the fires out.

While Western media have examined the role of rising temperatures and drought in this year’s record wildfires in North America, Russian media continue to pay little attention to an issue that animates so much of the world.

The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December’s U.N. climate summit in Paris.

Russia’s official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians “spend less on fur coats” while “agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that”.

[samtheman]

If we don’t stop global warming we’ll all freeze!

[Little Ray]

Things are truly sad when an ex-KGB thug speaks more truth than the Federal Government or the Media.

[Utah Binger]

Gobal Warming blamed for antarctic snow growth as IPCC data wrong again, Putin says warming is a fraud.

Warming equates to more snow is the latest update from global warming enthusiasts as the latest report from NASA and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) points out that from 1992 to 2001, Antarctica was estimated to have gained 112 billion tons of ice every year. Even when growth slowed, it still continued, adding 82 billion tons of ice during 2003 t0 2008.

We are essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica, said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology.

Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas. Zwally added that his team measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.

Climate change advocates are quick to say that none of this means global warming is not happening, but it does indicate some sensationalism may be at play by environmental activists and their reports.

Zwally said that the IPCC report suggested a yearly 0.27 millimeter sea level rise was attributed to Antarctica, a claim that is likely not true according to NASA findings. Antarctica ice gains illustrate that the continent is actually responsible for reducing the Earth sea level by 0.23 millimeters per year. This is bad news, he explained, as the measurement made in the IPCC report must be coming from a different, unknown source.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made headlines this week for calling global warming a fraud.

The Russian public heard little mention of climate change, because media coverage across state-controlled television stations and print media all but ignored it. On national TV, the villains were locals who routinely but carelessly burn off tall grasses every year, and the sometimes incompetent crews struggling to put the fires out.

While Western media have examined the role of rising temperatures and drought in this years record wildfires in North America, Russian media continue to pay little attention to an issue that animates so much of the world.

The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of Decembers U.N. climate summit in Paris.

Russias official view appears to have changed little since 2003, when Putin told an international climate conference that warmer temperatures would mean Russians spend less on fur coats while agricultural specialists say our grain production will increase, and thank God for that.

[Trumpinator]

Thanks. I have been noticing the cut and paste of many articles produces those squiggly lines - don’t know why.

[Little Pig]

Technically, what they’re saying is possible. In much of Antarctica, it is often too cold to snow (i.e. the atmosphere is so cold it can’t hold any moisture). Antarctica is actually classified as a desert due to the minimal precipitation. Warming the air “up” closer to freezing makes snow possible.

[ohioman]

But the earth is NOT warming and the ice IS advancing. We are still in an Ice Age (at the interglacial level) after all. The only thing to really worry about is when the interglacial time period ends and the GLACIAL begins again. It is about a 100% chance of this happening, but no one but God knows when? Could be 50 years could be 5,000 years from now?

When the current interglacial ends, there won’t be a damn thing we can do about it as people in Russia and Canada and the Northern USA and Europe start to migrate south.