Polar Ice Caps More Stable Than Predicted, New Observations Show

Watts Up With That? ^ | January 5, 2015 | By Anthony Watts

[Brad from Tennessee]

THE North and South Poles are “not melting”, according to a leading global warming expert. In fact, the poles are “much more stable” than climate scientists once predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought. For years, scientists have suggested that both poles are melting at an alarming rate because of warming temperatures – dangerously raising the Earth’s sea levels while threatening the homes of Arctic and Antarctic animals.

But the uncertainty surrounding climate change and the polar ice caps reached a new level this month when research suggested the ice in the Antarctic is actually growing.

And there could even be evidence to suggest the polar bear population is not under threat.

Ted Maksym, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, conducted a study in which he sent an underwater robot into the depths of the Antarctic sea to measure the ice. . .

[Tenacious 1]

Since when does WUWT do Satire?

This is old info. Are they suggesting something is changing?

[molson209]

Obama will fix the Warming/Cooling at the same time(D’oh) thing with Executive Orders WOOT

[RatRipper]

I guess they are going to just have to save us from something else. . . . (/ominous sarc)

[SunkenCiv]

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[catnipman]

““Global sea ice is at a record high, another key indicator that something is working in the opposite direction of what was predicted.” “

He couldn’t just come out and say “another key indicator that the climate model predictions are incorrect”. Probably would lose all his funding and he’d be dishonorably discharged from the ranks of “climate scientists” with a formal ceremony where his arm patches are ripped off while a dozen snare drums clatter in the background.

[VTenigma]

HERECY !

[Don Corleone]

All this “global warming” hoopla is akin to the magicians slight of hand distractions while he does something to fool the audience...like in this case, destroying the Constitution and “Fundamentally changing America”. We watch one hand while the other, Obama and his Marxists and One Worlders deftly strip away the 200 plus years of freedom that the founding fathers tried to give us. Abracadabra...poof!

[az_gila]

Since when does WUWT do Satire?

This is old info. Are they suggesting something is changing?

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It is a new report covering 2014 numbers...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/548516/North-South-poles-not-melting-Dr-Benny-Peiser

[Celtic Conservative]

It’s Heresy too.

CC

[CrazyIvan]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.H. L. Mencken

[Steve_Seattle]

This isn’t news for me because I’ve been following global sea ice levels for years on the University of Indiana’s website “Cryosphere Today.” They have graphs of the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, and global totals. Right now, the global sea ice coverage is well-above the 1979-2014 norm.

[C210N]

All the tax-payer funded grants issued to GlowBull warmist scientists over the last 25 years should be returned to the public till. And those that took the money charged with and prosecuted for fraud.

[GraceG]

[ This isn’t news for me because I’ve been following global sea ice levels for years on the University of Indiana’s website “Cryosphere Today.” They have graphs of the northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, and global totals. Right now, the global sea ice coverage is well-above the 1979-2014 norm. ]

Blasphemer! How DARE you actually CITE FACTS!!!! Burn at the carbon neutral Stake you heretic!!!!!

[Mike Darancette]

Who’d a thunk it?

[taxcontrol]

There has been no global warming for the past 18+ years.

[Gideon7]

The thing that bothers me is when the AGW hysteria finally blows over and gets revealed as the largest scientific fraud in history, it's going to permanently damage people's trust in science (or rather, in scientists).

After this, nobody will listen to them if there is real potential world-wide disaster looming - for example, a new Maunder sunspot minimum leading to another Little Ace Age.

[Gideon7]

[SgtHooper]

Too late! The chicken-little effect has already been published and is working well.

[a fool in paradise]

All the tax-payer funded grants issued to GlowBull warmist scientists over the last 25 years should be returned to the public till. And those that took the money charged with and prosecuted for fraud.

Returned WITH interest and penalties.