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Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice

Posted by timothy on from the that-looks-like-a-fun-vacation dept.

First time accepted submitter Stinky Cheese Man writes "An Antarctic climate research expedition, led by climate researcher Chris Turney of the University of New South Wales, has become trapped in heavy ice near the coast of Antarctica. The captain has issued a distress call and three nearby icebreaker ships are on their way to the rescue. According to Turney's web site, the purpose of the expedition is 'to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.'"

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  1. Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarctic by mc6809e · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's about 1.53 million more square km of ice than what is usual.

  2. Re:Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Hilarious. Calling people "deniers".

    www.climatedepot.com

    Is that good enough for you? You alarmists crack me up. Self righteous idiots - 'useful idiots', as comrade Lenin would have called you...

  3. Re:Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    :-) welcome to climate "discussion". It is like talking to religious fanatic -- logic just doesn't work. I gave up trying to argue with them long ago and probably this is exactly what they want -- to control mass media (in this case chats/reddit/etc).

  4. Re:Seems there's more ice than usual in the antarc by Beeftopia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    mc6809e wrote:
    There's about 1.53 million more square km of ice than what is usual.

    Ol Olsoc wrote:
    allow me to post the rest: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/

    mc6809e noted that in the SOUTHERN hemisphere, there is a +1.53 million square km ice anomaly.

    However, in the follow-on post, it shows that in the NORTHERN hemisphere, there is a -0.63 million square km ice anomaly.

    So, +1.53 - 0.63 = +0.9 net global ice difference over the past 3 years. And this is relative to the mean from 1978-2008.

    Personally, it does make sense to me that there is AGW, but these graphs indicate a net global sea ice increase over the past 3 years. Is it the last word in the discussion? No, but it is an interesting data point.