December 22, 2007
1329 gmt
Antarctica without it's cold.
August 13, 2007
1917 gmt
Antarctica a month from the end of it's winter. There was enormous cold over the ice.
There were several contributing events that caused the change in temperature shift over Antarctica. Both are documented on this blog, both have never occurred before, while the Ice Continent has never before been noted to lose it's frigid cold over the Blue Ice. East Antarctica has never before experienced this level of heat in recent time.
The first event was when heat was noted over the Blue Ice. I speculated at that time, since there were no heat transfers arriving to the continent, the heat decended from the top of the troposphere down. In other words the carbon dioxide had accumulated in the upper troposphere without an escape to the stratosphere and therefore was descending from altitude over East Antarctica.
(This would be more a possibility over the 'poles' since the tropospheric air in this location is shallower than over the Equator. The Equatorial air is hot and a larger mass even though there are the same number of molecules. So any 'concentration' of carbon dioxide that would disaffect the heat index of Earth in a dramatic way, would occur over the poles first. The North Pole/Arctic Ocean does not have 3 mile high ice, it is an ocean whereas Antarctica is a continent with an accumulation of ice over it's Eastern land mass.) I still believe there was a descent of hot air from the upper troposphere over Antarctica and I believe it to be a significant contributing factor to the loss of Antarctica's frigid state currently. I also believe this to be a very serious event.
Secondly, there was a 'movement' of the frigid air off East Antarctica recently. It was an 'air mass,' it moved in unison, it was heavy due to it's density and simply; when displaced by the upper tropospheric hot air; 'slid' off the upper altitudes of ice to the lower elevations and off the continent completely while mixing then with high winds, which have been noted in recent weeks, to dilute the frigid air into warmer densities and climate.
This is a tragic event for Earth and it's climate. It is a tragic event, that governments need to note and consider to be a threat to their peoples.
