Warmer weather does not melt Arctic and Antarctic icecaps

“Glacier Girl,” a WWII P-38 fighter that was forced to land on the Greenland icecap in 1942. It and other planes were found in 1992, 50 years later and some 268 feet below the ice surface of Greenland. Greenland’s ice is growing, not shrinking. The team melted the ice around the plane as seen in the picture, disassembled, brought to the surface and reassembled. It now flies in airshows around the country. (see “Climate Fraud”) Louis A Sapienza, all rights reserved.

 

     Every claim that man-caused global warming will produce extreme weather events has been disproven. (See Hot Air). However, the claim that the Arctic and Antarctic icecaps are melting by global warming remain in question. Now, after years of claiming the icecaps are melting and causing rising sea levels, this claim has been disproven.

Recent research was combined by Dr. Willis Eschenbach is showing that over geologic time, the warmer it gets the more it snows, which eventually turns into ice.

50,000 years of temperature and ice accumulation in Greenland. Temperatures calculated from the ∂18O oxygen isotope levels and borehole temperatures in the GISP2 ice core in Greenland. Ice accumulation also from GISP2 ice core. After Willis Eschenbach “The Warmer the Icier” WUWT.

Notice that as the temperature increased after the last ice age, so did the rate of snowfall and ice accumulation. Much of that increase is likely due to the ocean ice melting allowing for more evaporation from the thawed ocean surface and therefore more moisture available for snow formation. Warmer air also holds more moisture than cold air.

     Now notice the inter-glacial period we are currently in starting some 10,000 years ago. Temperatures have been going down while precipitation is going up – exactly the opposite of what happened at the end of the last ice age. There are a number of reasons for this.

For example, think of the Great Lakes during the winter. As very cold air moves over relatively warm lakes it picks up tremendous amounts of moisture which dumps snow over the southern shores of the lakes. The colder the lakes the more it snows.

The point is that warming temperatures tend to reduce the rate of rain and snowfall, not the melting of ice and snow. Also, there is a growing body of research showing that industrial soot and dust causes the surface of the icecaps and glaciers to warm and melt in recent years, which in itself is a concern. Therefore, warming does not likely cause a significant increase icecap melting and rise in sea levels as we are told by our government.

To be sure, the warming temperatures from 1970-1996 probably did cause some melting of glaciers and the icecap of Greenland (the Arctic icecap cannot increase ocean levels as it is merely floating on water.) However, Greenland’s icecap is actually growing. Antarctica’s icecap is also growing except along the Antarctic Peninsula where the ocean is warmed by volcanic activity.

This is supported by real evidence.  In 1942 a squadron of B-17’s and P-38’s were forced to land on Greenland’s southern icecap. In 1992 the planes were found; 269 feet below the icecap surface. The icecap grew by that amount in 50 years! See the picture at top of blog.

Michael Coffman