Antarctic Ice Grows To Record Levels

By Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo

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12 Sep 07 – The Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. The Southern Hemispheric areal coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice extent.
While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This dichotomy was shown in a World Climate Report blog posted recently with a similar tale told by Ohio State Researcher David Bromwich, who agreed: “It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now.”

Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the coldest year was 2004. This winter has been an especially harsh one in the Southern Hemisphere with cold and snow records set in Australia, South America and Africa. We will have recap on this hard winter shortly.

This is what I’ve been saying for years – that the Antarctic
Ice Sheet is growing thicker. The Antarctic Ice Sheet covers
some five million square miles, twice as big as the contiguous
United States. It’s almost 100 times bigger than all of the
rest of the world’s glaciers put together.

In other words, more than 90 percent of the world’s glaciers
are growing. But all we hear about is the ones that are melting.

I consider that to be biased reporting.

See entire article with links to graphics and other papers mentioned:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/a_new_record_for_antartic_total_ice_extent
Thanks to Alan Caruba for this link

http://www.iceagenow.com/Antarctic_ice_grows_to_record_levels.htm

Kill the Messenger

Further protests have been held in Burma over fuel price rises, despite the arrest of more than 60 activists by the military since last week. The low-key demonstrations involved some 30 people in Rangoon and up to 200 monks in the western port of Sittwe.

But analysts say it is remarkable they are happening at all, given the army’s crackdown on last week’s protests.

The fuel price rise, in the case of cooking gas by 500%, has enraged a population already living in poverty.

In addition to deploying soldiers and armed police, the government has sent gangs of thugs, some allegedly recently released criminals, to attack the protestors and drag away their leaders.

The dozens of activists now thought to be in custody include some of Burma’s best known dissidents.

The mainly novice monks in Sittwe were not stopped from protesting, according to local residents.

Their involvement must worry the government, echoing the widespread involvement of monks in the 1988 uprising that came close to overthrowing military rule.

Some Burmese are speculating that the fuel price rise was a deliberate move to provoke a crisis, perhaps reflecting disagreements within the ruling military council.

But with such a heavy security presence now on the streets of all the main towns, it will be difficult for any activists to keep their protest movement going.