Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Scientists “puzzled” over global cooling in Antarctica


Scientists “puzzled” over global cooling in Antarctica:
Funny how the warmers seem to always ignore the South Pole. But today we find a story discussing Antarctica in an article from Nature that says Antarctica is cooling.

“Our 14-year continuous weather station record from the shore of Lake Hoare reveals that seasonally averaged surface air temperature has decreased by 0.7 degrees Celsius per decade,” they write. “The temperature decrease is most pronounced in summer and autumn. Continental cooling, especially the seasonality of cooling, poses challenges to models of climate and ecosystem change.”

The findings are puzzling because many climate models indicate that the Polar regions should serve as bellwethers for any global warming trend, responding first and most rapidly to an increase in temperatures. An ice sheet many kilometers thick in places perpetually covers almost all of Antarctica.

Temperature anomalies also exist in Greenland, the largest ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere, with cooling in the interior concurrent with warming at the coast.

Source Global Cooling In Antarctica.

Since this is such a mystery to these people, why does ANYONE trust them at all?

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