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Recent Warming of Antarctica "Unusual But Not Unprecedented"
First time accepted submitter tomhath writes with a link to the abstract (full article paywalled) in Nature of an "Ice core study that concludes that climate change and associated melting of ice in Antarctica is more the norm than the exception, including rapid warming cycles as we appear to be in today. Study concludes: 'Although warming of the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula began around 600 years ago, the high rate of warming over the past century is unusual (but not unprecedented) in the context of natural climate variability over the past two millennia. The connection shown here between past temperature and ice-shelf stability suggests that warming for several centuries rendered ice shelves on the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula vulnerable to collapse.'"
I for one welcome our new...old....ones overlords!
Shut up, you stupid, justified shill of a troll.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
How old are you?
WRONG. There was NEVER consensus as to the cooling. Not ever. In fact, it was never more then a tiny percent of climatologist.
You can try to pretend that cooling was "never" predicted. However, the inconvenient truth is that the seminal, and highly cited, work of Strummer et al. (1979) clearly predicted an incipient increase in ice coverage. As they stated (repeatedly):
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
At least, that's the only work I know of from that era that predicts another ice age soon...