Ice cubes melt on volcanoes

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More on the Wilkins ice shelf

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Another expert, Anthony Watts, chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio in California and the founder of www.surfacestations.org, said "the recent news stories on Antarctic ice shelf collapse completely miss two very important facts.

First, the Antarctic Peninsula is an extension of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and populated with volcanoes both on the surface and submarine. Second, satellite imagery from NASA shows there to be hot spots around and within the Antarctic Peninsula where the Wilkins Ice Shelf is located. NASA computer models show one such volcanic hotspot is centered directly under the Wilkins Ice Shelf."

Global sea ice extent now 1,000,000 square kilometers above the "long-term" average!

See the graph here.

To put that in perspective, that amount of extra ice is over 2,400 times as big as the little chunk that just broke off the Wilkins Ice Shelf. That truly vast amount of "unusual" ice is more than 17,000 times as big as the land area of Manhattan!

How to make a mountain out of a molehill

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Times Online admits though that all the eight ice shelf collapses in the past 30 years have occurred on the Antarctic Peninsula and that there is evidence that mean temperature at the South Pole is actually falling. But Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the IPCC, has seized on the Wilkins event to give warning of “irreversible and abrupt changes” including cataclysmic sea level rises.

In the light of world temperatures slightly falling I guess IPCC is desperately catching at every straw.

Misleading Reports Now About Antarctica

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Update 1: Further detailed debunking of the latest "ice shelf collapse" hype is available here.

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Thank goodness for the internet.

Update 2: Climate Skeptic weighs in here.

Update 3: More information is here, in a post entitled "10 year old story used as Climate Change propaganda".

More Ice Than "Ever" in Antarctica

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Antarctic Temperatures: 1958-2002

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Clearly, the entire continent of Antarctica, together with much of the Southern Ocean that surrounds it, has been completely oblivious to the supposedly "unprecedented" radiative impetus for warming produced by anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases over the last three decades of the 20th century ... and even a bit beyond.