{"id":344011,"date":"2024-09-21T15:27:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344011"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T13:27:16","slug":"no-mainstream-media-antarctica-isnt-burning-from-a-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=344011","title":{"rendered":"No, Mainstream Media, Antarctica Isn\u2019t \u2018Burning\u2019 from a Heat Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

A variety of mainstream media outlets claim Antarctica is burning up, registering unusually hot temperatures due to climate change, citing a recent study as the source for their stories. The stories misrepresent the study\u2019s findings and the science. The peer reviewed paper that the headlines reference clearly states that a short-term weather event was the cause, not climate change. Also, contrary to media\u2019s claims, there was no \u201cheat wave,\u201d since the official meteorological criteria for calling this event a heat wave was not met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo above shows the headline of SciTechDaily: Earth\u2019s Last Frontier Burns: Record-Breaking Heat Strikes Antarctica in Winter<\/strong><\/a>. <\/strong>Elsewhere, The Economic Times<\/em> weighed in with Antarctica\u2019s record heat wave: A threat to global sea levels and ice integrity<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>while CNN blared \u2018Astonishing\u2019 Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, let\u2019s refute the obvious. As is clear in the photo with the SciTechDaily headline above, nothing was burning in Antarctica despite the claim of a \u201ccontinent afire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SciTechDaily says this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2022, the most intense heat wave ever recorded on Earth hit Antarctica, just as organisms in the southern region braced themselves for the long, harsh winter ahead. The extreme weather raised temperatures in parts of Antarctica to more than 70\u00b0F above average, melting glaciers and snow even in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the planet\u2019s coldest and driest regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting that paragraph and those headlines in the proper perspective, we turn to the definition of a heat wave from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a> (NOAA):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A heat wave is a period of unusually hot weather that typically lasts two or more days. To be considered a heat wave, the temperatures have to be outside the historical averages for a given area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there were in fact less cold than normal temperatures in Antarctica during a one-day weather event, the temperature only briefly went above freezing, so there was no measurable melting. The practice of applying a \u201cheat wave\u201d label to such an event is erroneous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper<\/a> the media referred as the source of their alarming headlines says, \u201cRecord high temperatures were documented in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, on 18 March 2022, exceeding average temperatures for that day by nearly 30\u00b0C.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, the data they provide in the form of figure 1 shows the temperature in several location in Antarctica:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1 (a) Map of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica and (b)\u00a0the location of meteorological stations where air temperature was recorded at Lake Bonney, Lake Hoare, Lake Fryxell, the Friis Hills, and Lake Vanda. March 2022 temperature spikes circled in red by A. Watts. Source article: Response of a Terrestrial Polar Ecosystem to the March 2022 Antarctic Weather Anomaly<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As you can see in the temperature graphs on the right side of the figure (b) in March 2022, there were some brief spikes in temperature for one day (circled in red), where the freezing temperature of 0\u00b0C (32\u00b0F) was approached or exceeded. After that, temperatures immediately returned to normal for the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in the context of NOAA\u2019s heat wave definition above, the two-day minimum criteria were not met so referring to the brief temperature spike as a \u201cheat wave\u201d was erroneous or fake news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peer reviewed paper<\/a> said the cause of the event was, \u201c[a]n atmospheric river caused extreme weather in the Antarctic Dry Valleys in March 2022 with temperatures 25\u00b0C above average conditions.\u201d Even the title of the peer reviewed paper, \u201cResponse of a Terrestrial Polar Ecosystem to the March 2022 Antarctic Weather Anomaly,\u201d and calls it a weather anomaly<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single day weather event, that briefly caused temperatures to go above normal doesn\u2019t meet the meteorological definition of a heat wave, or a signal of climate change since it is not indicative of a long term 30-year trend of temperatures on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these scientific facts, the mainstream media outlets reporting the event described it variously as \u201c[a] threat to global sea levels and ice integrity,\u201d an \u201castonishing heat wave,\u201d and a \u201cburning continent of Antarctica\u201d in the eyes of the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The level of exaggeration, to use CNN\u2019s word, is astonishing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cnews reporting\u201d on this study and the weather anomaly it discussed is all too typical of the effort by media organizations to blame every weather event that falls even slightly outside the norm for no matter how brief a period of time as caused by climate change \u2013 even when the underlying research makes no such connection. Weather is not climate. They operate on completely different time scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sort of reporting is unprofessional, a disgusting disservice to the public who the media is supposed to inform, not mislead and indoctrinate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The photo above shows the headline of SciTechDaily: Earth\u2019s Last Frontier Burns: Record-Breaking Heat Strikes Antarctica in Winter. Elsewhere, The Economic Times weighed in with Antarctica\u2019s record heat wave: A threat to global sea levels and ice integrity, while CNN blared \u2018Astonishing\u2019 Antarctica heat wave sends temperatures 50 degrees above normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":344015,"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":[691818326,691818056,691819743,691818832,691820111],"class_list":{"0":"post-344011","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-climate-propaganda","11":"tag-heat-wave","12":"tag-mainstream-media","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0Screenshot-2024-09-21-152317.png?fit=1080%2C955&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1ruz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":297674,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297674","url_meta":{"origin":344011,"position":0},"title":"Un-educated Climate Alarmists are Dumbfounded to Learn Antarctica\u2019s Record-breaking \u201cHeatwave\u201d Increased Antarctica\u2019s Ice Sheet!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/01\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Click-bait media, such as the Washington Post, fear mongered the headlines, \u201cScientists found the most intense heat wave ever\u201d. 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