More great journalism from The Guardian:
Climate change is turning Antarctica green, say researchers
Or maybe it isn’t. Check out the brave actual prediction:
“Antarctica is not going to become entirely green, but it will become more green than it currently is,” said Matt Amesbury, co-author of the research from the University of Exeter.
Can I just say, the mean thickness of the Antarctic ice sheet is 2.16 km. I don’t know many plants that grow through one meter of ice.
Scientists studying banks of moss in Antarctica have found that the quantity of moss, and the rate of plant growth, has shot up in the past 50 years, suggesting the continent may have a verdant future.
There is more chance that Santa Claus will move in.
Maybe scientists will engineer frost resistant plants that survive at minus fifty. Right now, tonight, the centre of Antarctica is only five degrees below that.
Fifty years from now, plants that survive minus 50 will have a home…
Spot the out-of-date, old cherry picking:
In the second half of the 20th century, the Antarctic Peninsula experienced rapid temperature increases, warming by about half a degree per decade.
Nobody mention that in the last 20 years the Antarctic Peninsula cooled by almost 1 degree.
Last i heard the ice at both poles was getting thicker not thinner and that i still hope to see another group of these climate change activists get marooned in the ice
If it is still below freezing, what difference does half a deg per decade make? None!
And Mars might be the vacation vista of the future.
Even though it has
NO BREATHABLE AIR
NO USEABLE WATER
NO VEGETATIVE GROWTH
NO USEABLE FUEL
The first colonists of Mars will
Freeze to death before they
Dehydrate to death before they
Starve to death before they
Asphyxiate to death.
My property in rural Wisconsin was trapped beneath a massive ice shield only 11,000 years ago! …thankfully, IT MELTED.
This event occurred as a blink of an eye in geo-time. Before I accept any of this sky-is-falling nonsense from the climate-left they must first explain to me how this recent event could happen without human influences.
I’d also like to hear the tin-foil-hat leftists explain how socialist policies could have stopped my glacier from changing…
Should our local geologists who teach about this profound change without mentioning MMGW as a cause be censored as “science deniers”? Aren’t they dangerous too?
You can always tell when some enviromentalists or Al gore is in the area becuase the Hot Air comes in advance of them