Al Gore on the move

It is summer in Antarctica and Al Gore is going to visit with Richard Branson, Kevin Trenberth and James Hansen among others. They will report on the state of global warming on the continent and no doubt issue predictions as to when the Antarctic ice sheet can be expected to dissolve. No mention of whether the ship is solar or nuclear powered.Will Al be living on thin ice? Will the Gore Effect show up? Why are they not in Alaska?

Will we get a report similar to that of 1947?

Al Gore and company revel in confirmation bias. Here is some cognitive dissonance for them. Sorry, Al, no ice loss in Antarctica in last 30 years.

In anticipation of the standard 'the ice is melting' refrain from Gore et al here is some recent research and comment on the Antarctic.

An inconvenient truth: Earth is not melting after all

No need to panic about global warming 

SSTs influence Antarctic melt not humans

Both poles melting

OK, maybe not!

Recession of Antarctic ice 3000 feet per year

Antarctic temps on decline for 30 years

Antarctic temps show no sensitivity to increasing CO2

I'm not packing

South Pole amplification

WAIS collapse

We are sure to hear about the Antarctic PIG

I'm still not packing

Hansen 1988:: Antarctic meltdown So how is that going?

Oops!

It has never happened before not even in 1928 or 1932 Maybe there is a cycle involved here somewhere?

Death of Antarctica exaggerated

Antarctic Ice Growing not Melting 

 Still the sea ice grows

July 2010 - third highest ice peak in satellite record

Antarctic snowfall doubled since 1850

What about the penguins?

Can penguins adapt?

To sum up: South Pole is cooling, sea ice area is expanding, concerns of Antarctica melting are not new, sea surface temps influence Antarctic melt, temps in Antarctica show no sensitivity to CO2 concentration and it is cold there. I'm not packing! Besides, the penguins don't like us.

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