Antarctic Sea Ice Hits New Record High: Scientist Blames Global Warming For Increase

Antarctic Sea Ice Hits New Record: Warming Scientist Blames Global Warming

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This was a bad week for those proponants of the global warming hypothesis.  First June numbers are out and now officially the Earth hasn’t warmed for 17 years and 10 months.  Also the amount of Antarctic sea ice hit broke the all-time record maximum last weekend and then broke it again a few days later. But that wont stop the global warming proponents to keep trying to spin the news by blaming all that ice on—global warming. The new record is 2.112 million square kilometers above normal. Until the record was first surpassed this past weekend, the record had been 1.840 million square kilometers above normal. Harold Ambler who blogs at Talking About The Weather contacted Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center a supporter of the global warming hypothesis about the record ice levels. Serreze blamed it on global warming.What we’re talking about is water that is 60 degrees south and more southerly than that, and so the basic thing is you have got surrounding the Antarctic continent a band of fairly strong and somewhat steady west-east winds, which they call the Roaring 40s, but then you’ve got this thing called the coriolis force, which wants to turn things to the left. What happens is that water at the high latitudes, what happens is that as we heat that water, you set up what’s called an Ekman drift, which at the surface transports that water from the high southern latitudes toward the equator. What happens is you have to set up a continuity that has to occur so that what happens is that there’s an upwelling of cold waters from below, there’s a whole circulation loop where water sinks in the lower southern latitudes, then there’s a return flow that brings the same amount of mass to the higher latitudes. Basically, what happens is that in the Arctic you can warm that surface water up and it doesn’t get transported away. It stays there, and it helps melt more ice, but in the Antarctic, the water gets carried away. I thanked Serreze for his response but told him that I still didn’t know what heated the water at high latitudes. Was it, simply, global warming? “Exactly!” he said. “How many degrees is the water heated, before it is transported toward the equator?” I …

Warmists: ‘5 Ways To Have A Climate-Friendly Fourth Of July Without Driving Everyone Crazy’

5 Ways To Have A Climate-Friendly Fourth Of July Without Driving Everyone Crazy

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It’s July 4. It’s a Friday. It’s a Holiday. The last thing anyone wants is to be pestered about their carbon footprint and their contribution to global warming.
The fact is, though, that Fourth of July barbecues across the country cause a considerable amount of carbon to be pumped into the air. It’s by no means a huge amount compared to how much carbon the United States emits collectively in one year — in fact, it’s relatively insignificant in comparison. But if you’re a conscientious person who cares about the environment, you deserve to know the impacts: It’s the number one most popular holiday for outdoor cooking, and more than two-thirds of Americans turn on their grills. The emissions from all those grills add up — at least 225,000 metric tons of carbon is released into the atmosphere on the Fourth alone, the annual emissions equivalent of 47,368 cars.
Don’t worry about ditching the grill. But there are a few things you could do to reduce your emissions on that day — and the best part is, they’re all pretty simple. No pestering necessary.
1. Use a propane grill instead of charcoal
It’s no secret that propane grilling has a much lower carbon footprint than grilling with charcoal. According to a 2009 study published in Elsevier’s Environmental Impact Assessment Review, charcoal grilling produces three times more greenhouse gases than propane grilling on average, with each charcoal cookout having twice the carbon footprint of a propane cookout. Using propane also reduces how many times you have to drive to the store to buy fuel for your grill, cutting emissions from your car.
The Department of Energy has estimated that, if all the charcoal grills in America were replaced with propane grills, carbon dioxide emissions on the Fourth of July could be reduced by about 26 percent, or about 59,000 metric tons. That’s the equivalent of taking 12,421 cars off the road for an entire year.
2. If you do use charcoal, don’t use lighter fluid
If you really can’t do without the flavor of using charcoal for grilling, or if you don’t have a propane grill, never fear. There is a more climate-friendly way to use charcoal — not using lighter fluid.
Lighter fluid, according to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency, is comprised …