What Sky News Did Not Tell You About Antarctic Ice
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood
What Sky News Did Not Tell You About Antarctic Ice
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Utter garbage on Sky News:
The video makes two claims:
1) “The record low sea ice extent is due to higher ocean temperatures and warmer air.”
They do not mention that ice extent was at a record high as recently as 2014.
Nor do they mention that the ice has not “gone missing”, as they claim, but strong winds have pushed it polewards. As a result, the ice is thicker than normal:
Nor do they mention that temperatures are well below in Antarctica currently, about minus 30C. Not the heatwave they claim is happening, which they dishonestly base on one day in March 2022:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/?var_id=t2&ortho=1&wt=1
2) “Sea levels have risen by 17mm since the 1990s because of melting Greenland and Antarctic ice. By 2100, another 170mm will have been added.”
In fact, according to DMI, all of that 17mm has been caused by melting of Greenland glaciers, something which has been going on since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19thC.
Some studies even suggest that Antarctica is actually adding ice, because of greater snowfall.
As for the 2100 projections, they are pure junk, just like this Sky News video.
https://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8518750
Within the ring of fire it is estimated that there are millions of hydrothermal vents in subduction zones around the planet. James E. Kamis has developed a theory called Plate climatology. Heat flux from the mantle has been completely ignored in climate science but it can explain many climate phenomenon. He just published a book last year. “Geological Impacts on Climate”. As a practicing geologist for the past 45 years it really rang a bell for me. It is a fascinating read. The theory is that heat flux from the mantle through subduction trenches and mid sea rises contributes greatly to warming the oceans from below.
Subduction trenches such as the Marianas Trench are the thinnest crust on the planet. With trillions of litters of water subducted into hot rock. El Niño, if you will notice starts at a single source point every time. It is cyclical but not consistent, much like other volcanic features such as geysers and subsea hydrothermal vents. Temperature profiles of El Niño show warmer waters below. Climatologists struggle with how heat from the surface is stored in deep ocean water. It is not from the atmosphere, heat comes from below. El Niño in his theory is the direct result of volcanic and hydrothermal activity above the Marianas subduction zone east of Papua Nw Guinea.
Techtonic features below Western Antarctic shelf with dozens of active under ice volcanoes has a heat flux 10 times the heat flux in Eastern Antarctica, explaining why all the ice loss in Antarctica is from the Western Shelf while Eastern Antarctica remains stable.
Water in the Bering sea are warmed by volcanic activity in the Alaskan peninsula, another subduction zone and under sea volcanoes off the coast of northwestern Canada. Currents from the Bering sea move to the Arctic through the Bering straight contributing to melting sea ice distribution in the Arctic.
Same in Greenland. Heat flux from crust at one time overlaying a mantle plume, now under Iceland still has a heat flux 5 times higher than southern Greenland. There, as in the Antarctic, the ice is melting from below. Nowhere does any of this show up in climate models.
There is little to no research being done on this theory. The theory seems sound but more research needs to be done. He derived the theory from basic geological and geophysical studies. Just as it took Plate Tectonics 70 years to become mainstream, hope it doesn’t take that long for this theory to be tested.