This photo provided by Fairfax Media Pool and released by the Australian Antarctic Division on January 2, 2014 shows the Chinese Antarctic vessel Xue Long (C) from the bridge of the Aurora Australis ship off Antarctica, both in the frozen waters to help rescue a nearby Russian research ship (not pictured). (AFP Photo / Jessica Fitzpatrick)
The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, (click here) which helped rescue 52 passengers from the stranded Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy, is feared to be stuck in the Antarctic sea ice. An Australian icebreaker is now on standby for a potential second rescue mission.
The Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, had helped ferry stranded passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy to an Australian icebreaker the Aurora Australis, but is now concerned about its own ability to move through the heavy sea ice, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said....
All the news media services globally dependent and favoring the petroleum industry goes around ignoring valuable information from NASA because it doesn't fit into their political ranting and raving.
Everyone wants to sensationalize this mess with the tilt that favors their political outcome and no one reports the truth.
Let's all just play with fire because human beings are the smartest creatures on Earth and we can put out any fire once we get it started. Right? Arrogance? Yes? Absolutely.
Earth is just the place to drill and frack and punch holes in it for oil and gas and coal and minerals for profits so profiteers don't have to worry about their future. The more money in their Pots of Gold the better, heck, they can jump on a space ship to nowhere then and live forever.
Well, lookey thar. NASA has been doing their jobs after all.
I'll be hog tied and hornswoggled, they even fixed up a graph for our better understanding. It isn't a Wall Street graph, but, it is interesting one. Right?
Let's all just play with fire because human beings are the smartest creatures on Earth and we can put out any fire once we get it started. Right? Arrogance? Yes? Absolutely.
Earth is just the place to drill and frack and punch holes in it for oil and gas and coal and minerals for profits so profiteers don't have to worry about their future. The more money in their Pots of Gold the better, heck, they can jump on a space ship to nowhere then and live forever.
Well, lookey thar. NASA has been doing their jobs after all.
I'll be hog tied and hornswoggled, they even fixed up a graph for our better understanding. It isn't a Wall Street graph, but, it is interesting one. Right?
See this graph is a plot of ALL the advances and retreat of Antarctica Sea Ice since 1980. I'll be darn those scientists at NASA have plotted a trend in sea ice advance that predicted exactly what is happening in the CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS today. There are two circumpolar currents. Indeed.
To the right is about the simplest picture I could find regarding the two currents that circulate at the bottom of the world. The one nearest the ice continent is East Wind Drift and then outside the East Wind Drift is the West Wind Drift. They lie next to each other and flow in opposite directions.
Interesting thing happens at their convergence point, there is OCEAN UPWELLING caused by the two current rubbing against each other. The same phenomena occurs at the Equator. When there is upwelling there are phytoplankton exposed from below the surface to the top of the ocean waters. It provides incredible feeding opportunities for marine mammals like whales. The whales migrate. They migrate like birds, they go to either polar regions to feed and they go to the tropical areas to breed and give birth. Smart aren't they? They know their young calves can have adverse outcomes when born in frigid temperatures. I am wondering long about now how much upwelling is occurring and how much open water there is for them to feed. This is the only season they can feed in Antarctica. I suppose there will be yet another scientific expedition to check on them soon.
Interesting thing happens at their convergence point, there is OCEAN UPWELLING caused by the two current rubbing against each other. The same phenomena occurs at the Equator. When there is upwelling there are phytoplankton exposed from below the surface to the top of the ocean waters. It provides incredible feeding opportunities for marine mammals like whales. The whales migrate. They migrate like birds, they go to either polar regions to feed and they go to the tropical areas to breed and give birth. Smart aren't they? They know their young calves can have adverse outcomes when born in frigid temperatures. I am wondering long about now how much upwelling is occurring and how much open water there is for them to feed. This is the only season they can feed in Antarctica. I suppose there will be yet another scientific expedition to check on them soon.
Now about this map and that graph. This is an evaluation NASA does annually. They conduct these surveys to account for changes in polar ice masses and to realize where there are ice bergs and what kind of havoc the bergs will cause in shipping lanes. Well, here it is and guess what, the sea ice is causing problems in ship traffic.
October 1, 2013
In late September 2013, (click here) the ice surrounding Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum and set a new record. Sea ice extended over 19.47 million square kilometers (7.51 million square miles) of the Southern Ocean. The previous record of 19.44 million square kilometers was set in September 2012....
Remember that year 2012. I'll be referring to it soon. I just love the way NASA scientists minimize their own measurements. "Oh, it only is adding 22 miles to the sea ice?" Are these scientists ever required to get their heads out of their satellites and actually ride in a ship to understand what 22 miles of sea ice will do?
Remember that year 2012. I'll be referring to it soon. I just love the way NASA scientists minimize their own measurements. "Oh, it only is adding 22 miles to the sea ice?" Are these scientists ever required to get their heads out of their satellites and actually ride in a ship to understand what 22 miles of sea ice will do?
...Sea ice extent is defined as the total area in which the ice concentration is at least 15 percent.
“For the second year in a row, we set a record high winter maximum,” said Walt Meier, a glaciologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “But even though it is a record high, it is only 3.6 percent above the 1981-2010 average maximum. That means the difference between this year and an average year is that the ice edge extended an average of only about 35 kilometers (22 miles) farther this year.”...
The truth is they minimize their measurements so Senator Inhofe doesn't demand their firing for being honest in a way that is damaging to his reputation as a Climate Denier. NASA scientists worry about whistle blowing because Russia already has their own scientists and they would profoundly be out of work even if they fled the country from Inhofe.
Keep in mind the 'wind chill' factor when thinking about the growth of sea ice. Also realize when water moves it does not readily freeze. So, when water and wind reach the East Wind Drift it becomes more stagnant and moves with water that is already frigid. Now what happens when water and cold is added to an established ocean current?
I'll wait a minute on that one. Most people can figure this one out. I have confidence most anyone reading this can establish an understanding of what occurs here. So I'll wait a minute or two.
June 13, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- Ocean waters (click here) melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.
Scientists have studied the rates of basal melt, or the melting of the ice shelves from underneath, of individual ice shelves, the floating extensions of glaciers that empty into the sea. But this is the first comprehensive survey of all Antarctic ice shelves. The study found basal melt accounted for 55 percent of all Antarctic ice shelf mass loss from 2003 to 2008, an amount much higher than previously thought....
I'll be darn NASA scientists have plenty of guts to go with their smarts. So, I have to conclude it is the media that is scared to death to report what exactly the truth is, because scientists already know and are not in denial.
This study by NASA was conducted because there were large amounts of 'something' entering the ocean currents from under the ice sheets. All the satellites knew is that it was happening, but, the satellites can't state it is melting ice. So, now the assessments are complete WE KNOW that Antarctica is losing vast amounts of it's ice structures.
There is a similarity between this map of Antarctica and that of the Arctic Circle map I posted earlier. The colors and methodology in reporting is the same. So between the two maps it is clearly DOCUMENTED that Earth is losing it's ice caps and we losing them where Continental and Oceanic ice meets warmer ocean waters.
So, what is all this sea ice mess about and why does it indicate global warming? There is 2012 again.
November 12, 2012
NASA and British Antarctic Survey scientists (click here) have reported the first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift caused by changing winds are responsible for observed increases in Antarctic sea ice cover in the past two decades. The results help explain why, unlike the dramatic sea ice losses being reported in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change....
The truth is they minimize their measurements so Senator Inhofe doesn't demand their firing for being honest in a way that is damaging to his reputation as a Climate Denier. NASA scientists worry about whistle blowing because Russia already has their own scientists and they would profoundly be out of work even if they fled the country from Inhofe.
Keep in mind the 'wind chill' factor when thinking about the growth of sea ice. Also realize when water moves it does not readily freeze. So, when water and wind reach the East Wind Drift it becomes more stagnant and moves with water that is already frigid. Now what happens when water and cold is added to an established ocean current?
I'll wait a minute on that one. Most people can figure this one out. I have confidence most anyone reading this can establish an understanding of what occurs here. So I'll wait a minute or two.
June 13, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- Ocean waters (click here) melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.
Scientists have studied the rates of basal melt, or the melting of the ice shelves from underneath, of individual ice shelves, the floating extensions of glaciers that empty into the sea. But this is the first comprehensive survey of all Antarctic ice shelves. The study found basal melt accounted for 55 percent of all Antarctic ice shelf mass loss from 2003 to 2008, an amount much higher than previously thought....
I'll be darn NASA scientists have plenty of guts to go with their smarts. So, I have to conclude it is the media that is scared to death to report what exactly the truth is, because scientists already know and are not in denial.
This study by NASA was conducted because there were large amounts of 'something' entering the ocean currents from under the ice sheets. All the satellites knew is that it was happening, but, the satellites can't state it is melting ice. So, now the assessments are complete WE KNOW that Antarctica is losing vast amounts of it's ice structures.
There is a similarity between this map of Antarctica and that of the Arctic Circle map I posted earlier. The colors and methodology in reporting is the same. So between the two maps it is clearly DOCUMENTED that Earth is losing it's ice caps and we losing them where Continental and Oceanic ice meets warmer ocean waters.
So, what is all this sea ice mess about and why does it indicate global warming? There is 2012 again.
November 12, 2012
NASA and British Antarctic Survey scientists (click here) have reported the first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift caused by changing winds are responsible for observed increases in Antarctic sea ice cover in the past two decades. The results help explain why, unlike the dramatic sea ice losses being reported in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change....
..."We now know that these regional changes are caused by changes in the winds, which, in turn, affect the ice cover through changes in both ice drift and air temperature," he continued. "The changes in ice drift also suggest large changes in the ocean surrounding Antarctica, which is very sensitive to the cold and salty water produced by sea ice growth."...
When continental ice melts it is adding H2O to the ocean currents. The salinity drops in the East Wind Drift first.
Remember when I first started this blog how I recorded daily from information familiar to consumers, the daily changes in wind and temperature of Antarctica and places like Barrow, Alaska?
Yeah. See, there was a reason for all that and it wasn't to scare people into 'believing' in the Climate Crisis. It was to demonstrate with solid scientific principles how serious Earth's deterioration is to all people in all areas of the world. I did that successfully. It was those that were receiving the information that didn't want to valid what I knew, even back then, was occurring. NASA eventually was moved to FINISH the work they were already doing to a conclusion regarding the warming of Earth.
The drastic loss of ice in particular ways that alarmed observers; they had to account for it. So, they did.
Why the larger extent of 'sea ice' as opposed to 'continental ice?' The oceans are warming so there is more ice melt entering waters. That ice melt are really cold, so when the water finally stops moving in the East Wind Drift and adds to the coldness of that current it starts to solidify again. Add to that the high winds with really low temperatures causing a wind chill and contributing to the fall in temperature of surface water in the East Wind Drift and the water solidifies. Add to that the East Wind Drift and West Wind Drift interact at their convergence zone and then the West Wind Drift starts to become effected in the same way as the East Wind Drift.
Just because the wind blows cold doesn't mean that Earth is in a cooling cycle. Because if Earth was in a cooling cycle the ice at the poles where they meet with ocean waters would not be melting.
It is all there. It is all documented by the best scientists in many nations and their data concurs. It is very difficult to deny that the poles are losing their ice and sea ice extent is increasing due to the loss of that ice from the continent. If anyone denies it; they are lying.
