March 6, 2008
0900 AM
Antarctica Surface Winds
Both this image and the 24 hour loop (click here) show different air masses. The coastal air masses and the Blue Ice air mass. They are 'non-communicating' except where the frigid air from the 3 mile high Blue Ice 'falls off' its plateau due to its denser weight to the lower coastal elevations.
The heat transfers are 'on shore' winds, while the Blue Ice surface winds, even though swirling and turbulent, are 'off shore' winds.
In that realization is a danger... one not discussed in the literature leaving only speculation to exist... so I propose an experiment...ready? Okay. It's a reasonable hypothesis, so here we go. More than reasonable actually.
I am going to need some items. I need a stack of ice cubes, perhaps three or four, frozen together in a straight line. They can be any kind of ice cubes, lemonade, water or any other liquid substance that freezes 'water like' in its consistency. But the ice cubes have to be frozen together and they all have to be the same liquid regardless of what that chosen liquid may be.
The ice cubes have to be the same size, frozen together in a row.
The ice cubes now have to stand on end as if a tower. These ice cubes represent 'The Three Mile High Blue Ice.' Let's just for the sake of 'hypothesis' call this 'the core' of the ice mass that is Antarctica. It's the one core that always receives some type of recharge and primarily maintains its 'mass balance.' The structure basically always is the same mass. Okay?
Now. While supporting that tower of ice cubes is there anything there to stabilize it so it doesn't fall over, other than a warm finger one is holding the tower with that is causing some melting? Is there any supporting structure to hold the tower of Blue Ice in place? Of course not. The tower of Blue Ice is standing alone.
Now, what would it take to support that tower of Blue Ice? It would take 'terraces, like stair steps to provide enough mass over a wider base, such as the entire coastal area of Antarctica to support that tall tower of Blue Ice.
That is indeed what Antarctica is like. Not just a 'flat' map of white ice as viewed in a National Geographics Map Book. Antarctica is a terraced and structured ice mass at the south polar region of Earth.
Each ice structure of Antarctica, be it 3 mile high Blue Ice, the Ice Terraces, the Ice Fields, the Ice Shelves or the Sea Ice all serve the same exact purpose and that is to work as a team to serve the stability of the overall Antarctica structure.
The issue is this, as the sea ice wanes and the ice shelves collapse and the ice terraces melt into water runoff into the East Wind Drift; what indeed will support that tower of Blue Ice, BECAUSE, it is the knowledge of any Antarctica scientist that the Blue Ice at the very core of the Antarctica Ice Structure will never melt. There will always be 'enough' frigid air mass due to lack of sunlight alone during the winter months to maintain a significant amount of Blue Ice. And while holding a warm finger to a tower of ice cubes will provide enough heat to 'melt down' the structure that is not how Antarctica will meet with demise.
Antarctica will meet its demise through exposure of the 'base' to arriving heat transfer systems as the ice terraces disappear. It will melt from the bottom, leaving a stable and frigid mound of ice on an every shrinking base.
Now, using one's 'breath' begin to blow at the bottom of the ice cube stack as if a heat transfer system arriving to the bottom of the Blue ice. Does it melt in an orderly fashion? No. It melts in an array of indentations that will cause the toppling of the tower.
I have said this before and I'll say it again, human beings are playing with fire to allow Human Induced Global Warming to continue. The toppling of the core of Antarctica's Ice Structure will create a tsunami that will wipe out most life, either flora or fauna, on every coast of Earth.
And when the Antarctica ice cube melts in the Atlantic Ocean the world will no longer have ANY buffer to it's ever increasing heat.
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March 12, 2008
0600 gmt
Antarctica Polar Vortex/Jet Stream
The Antarctica polar vortex has been impinged upon in this image. In animation (click here) the vortex is obviously disrupted and there is arrival of heat transfer from March 6 through March 12th. The largest heat transfer of March 11th dissipated enough to have only a minimal impact on the Blue Ice. However, that dissipation effected the ice structures otherwise and without a doubt the stability of any ice terraces still existing that acts to stabilize and protect the 3 mile Blue Ice.
The satellites missing this week are 9 AM, 12 Noon and 6 PM.
The coldest reporting stations are:
Amundsen-Scott, Antarctica
Local Time: 9:30 AM NZDT on March 13, 2008
Lat/Lon: 90.0° S 0.0° E
Temperature :: -75 °F / -59 °C
Conditions :: Snow
Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h from the East
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 2.0 miles / 3.2 kilometers
Clouds :: Few 5906 ft / 1800 m
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m
Vostok, Antarctica
Local Time: 2:32 AM VOST on March 13, 2008
Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106..9° E
Temperature :: -62 °F / -52 °C
Conditions :: Clear
Humidity :: 40%
Dew Point :: -69 °F / -56 °C
Wind :: 14 mph / 22 km/h from the West
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
The warmest reporting stations are:
Bellingshausen, Antarctica
Local Time: 8:59 PM GMT
Lat/Lon: 62.2° S 58.9° W
Temperature :: 37 °F / 3 °C
Conditions :: Partly Cloudy
Humidity :: 78%
Dew Point :: 33 °F / 0 °C
Wind :: 12 mph / 18 km/h from the NW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 28.82 in / 976 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Elevation :: 52 ft / 16 m
King Sejong, Antarctica
Local Time: 9:00 PM GMT
Lat/Lon: 62.2° S 58.8° W
Temperature :: 36 °F / 2 °C
Conditions :: Partly Cloudy
Humidity :: 89%
Dew Point :: 34 °F / 1 °C
Wind :: 25 mph / 41 km/h from the WNW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 28.77 in / 974 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 6.0 miles / 10.0 kilometers
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
