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...because those of the green left who care so deeply and passionately for the planet must be delighted and relieved; that in Geophysical Research Letters, authors Tedesco and Monaghan observe that the amount of melting ice in Antarctica between October 2008 and January 2009 (the most recent local summer) ...wait for it...was the lowest figure in the (satellite) recorded history - i.e. from 1980. The graph to the right (click to enlarge) was adapted by World Climate Report from Tedesco M., and A. J. Monaghan, 2009. An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability... Geophysical Research Letters...

...“A 30-year minimum Antarctic snowmelt record occurred during austral summer 2008–2009 according to spaceborne microwave observations for 1980–2009. Strong positive phases of both the El-Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM) were recorded during the months leading up to and including the 2008–2009 melt season.”
Not even a little peep from the climate alarmist media about this news. Now, if the melt had been a record high…more from Climate Research News here...

Relax, melting Antarctic ice is normal...

...although the alarmists and the MSM like to pretend otherwise...

...Science is marvelous, it never rests and never accepts any simple answer at face value. Here we see confirmation of an alternate explanation for rapid ice melting in Antarctica. The latest paper “Recent Changes in Phytoplankton Communities Associated with Rapid Regional Climate Change Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula,” by Martin Montes-Hugo, et al, published in Science... cites thirty supporting references and cross referencing the older paper provides links to eighteen others—this paper's conclusions are not from a single group of “fringe” scientists. Yet have you heard this well documented explanation for rapid ice melting from any media outlet reporting on global warming? Of Course not! What is reported is “more unprecedented melting!”
To have reported that the melting ice could be explained more accurately by a scientific theory other than anthropogenic global warming would muddy the water, not to mention confuse the news anchor doing the reporting. This is what makes other scientists, myself included, so angry about the climate change clique—their lack of open mindedness, their willful disregard for any facts counter to their preconceived ideas, their out right lies. When the dust finally settles on the great global warming debate there will be a number of climate scientist with much to account for.
Meanwhile, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical...more here...