How big?
Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say
Scientists say the extent of Antarctic sea ice cover is at its highest level since records began.
Satellite imagery reveals an area of about 20 million square kilometres covered by sea ice around the Antarctic continent.
Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) said the discovery was made two days ago.
“This is an area covered by sea ice which we’ve never seen from space before,” he said.
“Thirty-five years ago the first satellites went up which were reliably telling us what area, two dimensional area, of sea ice was covered and we’ve never seen that before, that much area.
“That is roughly double the size of the Antarctic continent and about three times the size of Australia.”
That’s pretty damn big.
And this isn’t some lopsided leftist comparison where they measured the ice during one season and compared it to another season. This is ever. EVAR!
Of course, the MSM will finally get around to reporting on the “big ice” during the southern hemisphere’s summer when the sheets break off the shelf and go floating. Then it all be “glowball warmening” or some such.
I predict this will be buried. It contradicts the claims that “Global warming is going to kill us all, we’re DOOOOOOOOOMED.”
When several more years pass, though, and “global warming” continues not to happen, perhaps the “climate scientists” will recycle one of their nutty claims from the 1970s: “Pollution is causing another Ice Age! We’re DOOOOOOOOOOOMED” And the leftist newsmedia will eagerly pass the newest pronouncement of imminent Apocalypse on to us with straight faces. It’s Orwellian. Big Brother has increased the chocolate ration from thirty grams per week to twenty grams.
They’ve run out of integrity and credibility, not that they ever had much in the first place. I’ve said it before: if these people had been born a hundred years before, they’d have been the wild-eyed man standing on the street corner ringing a bell, wearing a sandwich board sign that said “THE END IS NIGH” that Thurber mocked.