{"id":274195,"date":"2023-08-17T19:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274195"},"modified":"2023-08-17T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T17:15:59","slug":"no-the-week-antarctica-is-not-a-bellwether-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274195","title":{"rendered":"No, THE WEEK, Antarctica is Not a \u2018Bellwether\u2019 for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The headline of August 14th<\/sup>\u00a0article in THE WEEK, distributed by MSN News, was \u201cHow Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether.<\/em><\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/em>The claim is false, being based not on peer reviewed science or real-world data, but rather it reflects nothing more than the opinion of the author. Actual data refutes the claimed connections between climate change and what is occurring in Antarctica this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let\u2019s look at some of the false claims in the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antarctica\u2019s climate change issues were recently highlighted by a new study from the journal\u00a0Frontiers in Environmental Science<\/a>. The study, co-authored by experts from the University of Exeter, the British Antarctic Survey, the University of Johannesburg and others, concluded that it\u2019s \u201cvirtually certain that future Antarctic extreme events will be more pronounced than those observed to date\u201d unless steps are taken to abate climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the biggest issues in Antarctica is undoubtedly the rapid melting of its ice. It was\u00a0recently reported<\/a>\u00a0that sheets of Antarctic ice are melting three times as fast as they did 30 years ago. Sea ice levels hit a record-low in 2017, and \u201cthe four lowest annual minimum sea ice extents of the satellite era have occurred since, with both 2022 and 2023 setting new records,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The \u201c\u2026new study from the journal\u00a0Frontiers in Environmental Science<\/a>.\u201d cited by Justin Klawans of THE WEEK isn\u2019t scientific research, it\u2019s an\u00a0opinion piece<\/em>, nothing more than a compendium of other research, combined with opinions about the other research. Opinion is not science. The title itself, \u201cAntarctic extreme events,\u201d is a dead giveaway, but the \u201cPublisher\u2019s note\u201d, which distances itself from the study says all you really need to know about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article, or claim that may be made by its manufacturer, is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is the kind of disclaimer for opinion pieces or sales pitches, not scientific research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, it should be noted that the reporter Justin Klawans\u00a0referenced yet another THE WEEK article<\/a>, known as a \u201cSpeed Read\u201d for his claims, rather than doing original research himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the article he referenced, seen in a screencap below, was chock full of inaccuracies itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The biggest inaccuracy is that the piece cites an\u00a0Earth Science System Data<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report and CNN, saying (bold mine): \u201cThe worst melt was in 2019, when\u00a0the ice sheets lost a combined\u00a0675 billion tons,<\/strong>\u00a0CNN writes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inaccuracy here is the lack of reporting the true perspective of 675 billion tons of melt. Here are the numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the\u00a0National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/a>\u00a0(NSIDC): \u201cThe Antarctic Ice Sheet measures nearly 4.9 kilometers (3 miles) at its thickest point and contains about\u00a030 million cubic kilometers (7.2 million cubic miles)\u00a0of ice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using\u00a0reference values<\/a>, a cubic kilometer of ice weighs approximately 0.92 metric gigatons, meaning that the Antarctic ice sheet weighs about 24,380,000 gigatons, or 24380000000000000 tons. Doing some simple math, let\u2019s look at how much 675 billion tons of melt actually is compared to all of the massive ice in Antarctica:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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675000000000 tons \u00f7 24380000000000000 tons = 0.00002768662<\/p>\n\n\n\n

X100 for percentage = 0.002768662% of the total mass of Antarctic ice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In simpler terms, the ice sheet melt in 2019 was about 0.003% of the total ice in Greenland and Antarctica.<\/strong>\u00a0Scary, isn\u2019t it? That number is well withing standard deviation, and essentially zero in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In THE WEEK article it was claimed: \u201cIt was\u00a0recently reported<\/a>\u00a0that sheets of Antarctic ice are melting three times as fast as they did 30 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers:<\/strong>\u00a00.00002768662 x 3 = 0.00002768662 for the percentage, times 100 = 0.008305986%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, three times nearly nothing is still nearly nothing at 0.008%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the media never bothers to mention the real comparison or the percentage, because that would destroy the narrative. Nor do they mention that during the next winter, much of that melted ice comes back when water refreezes or snow deposits onto the ice sheet during winter storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Climate at a Glance, both\u00a0Greenland<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Antarctica<\/a>\u00a0melt has been covered in these two graphs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 1: (click to enlarge) Comparison of satellite data for Greenland (top) and Antarctic ice mass loss (bottom). Cumulative ice mass loss on the left and that same data compared to the total mass of ice on the right. Data source: http:\/\/imbie.org<\/a>. Graphs originally by Willis Eshenbach, adapted and annotated by Anthony Watts.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, if you are worried about the loss of ice in Greenland or Antarctica as meltwater contributing to sea level rise as the media would have you believe, don\u2019t be. Further, events that occur in single years, or even in multiple years are indicative of climate, which require a\u00a030-year period of data to be valid as a trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, there\u2019s this from THE WEEK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s conclusive evidence that the temperature in Antarctica is rising, according to the study. The most extreme heat wave ever seen globally, the study stated, \u201coccurred over East Antarctica in March 2022 when surface temperature anomalies of up to [101.3 degrees Fahrenheit] were observed.\u201d The highest-ever temperature on the Antarctic mainland was\u00a0recorded in February 2020<\/a>, when a reading of 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit was observed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Note what they added: [101.3 degrees Fahrenheit]. It is important to understand that\u00a0isn\u2019t an actual air temperature that day<\/em>, it\u2019s a\u00a0departure from normal<\/em>, and normal is still very near the freezing point of 32\u00b0F when you subtract 101.3 \u2013 64.9 = 36.4\u00b0F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it surprising that on the very northernmost tip of Antarctica, well removed from the main ice mass, there might be a weather event that would create that warmer temperature? Buried in the article is the reason: \u201cThe wave of warm area seems to be tied to a \u201cfoehn<\/a>,\u201d or a rush of air that comes down from a slope or mountain and compresses air to warm it, the WMO\u2019s climate extremes expert\u00a0told\u00a0The Associated Press<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, weather, not climate, and that temperature was certainly not a threat to melting the huge volume of the Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds to a thousand plus miles away, as seen in Figure 2 below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2: Distance from Trinity Peninsula, Esperanza base to Antarctic Ice Sheet \u2013 Image: Google Earth.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the media won\u2019t tell you that. They also won\u2019t tell you that the melting they report and the threats from sea-level rise they insinuate are minuscule. Nor do they tell you that sea ice levels are driven by wind and ocean currents, which shift from year to year, and that sea ice does not displace water, and thus contributes nothing to sea level rise. Nor will they tell you that their measurements start from a peak in sea ice measurements just a couple of years after the continent\u2019s ice sheet has set repeated records of sea ice extent, also during the recent period of modest warming.\u00a0Indeed, NOAA reports that the overall trend for sea ice is close to zero in recent decades.<\/a>\u00a0Nor do they tell you that while West Antarctica and the Antarctic Penisula are losing ice, due in large part to subsurface volcanic activity, the vast\u00a0bulk of the continent<\/a>\u00a0is gaining ice mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sensationalizing of climate science, as the left-wing media has so successfully done, undermines real science, and the real facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sadder truth is, the mainstream media are complicit in the ongoing, widespread distortion of science encouraged by the politically powerful. This does serious disservice to the American people, whom they are supposed to be protecting as \u201cthe fourth estate,\u201d viewing big government initiatives with a jaundiced eye and skepticism in order to provide a check on wealthy, politically connected, elites. Big government cheerleading has replaced investigative journalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts has been in the weather business both in front of, and behind the camera as an on-air television meteorologist since 1978, and currently does daily radio forecasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has created weather graphics presentation systems for television, specialized weather instrumentation, as well as co-authored peer-reviewed papers on climate issues. He operates the most viewed website in the world on climate, the award-winning website wattsupwiththat.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The headline of August 14th\u00a0article in THE WEEK, distributed by MSN News, was \u201cHow Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether.\u201d\u00a0The claim is false, being based not on peer reviewed science or real-world data, but rather it reflects nothing more than the opinion of the author. Actual data refutes the claimed connections between climate change and what is occurring in Antarctica this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":274210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818326,691818056,691819043,691821905,691821904],"class_list":{"0":"post-274195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-antarctica","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-cnn","11":"tag-national-snow-and-ice-data-center-nsidc","12":"tag-the-week","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0rs11509_2005-0625.1200x630.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-19kv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":344011,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344011","url_meta":{"origin":274195,"position":0},"title":"No, Mainstream Media, Antarctica Isn\u2019t \u2018Burning\u2019 from a Heat Wave","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/09\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The photo above shows the headline of SciTechDaily: Earth\u2019s Last Frontier Burns: Record-Breaking Heat Strikes Antarctica in Winter. 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