By P Gosselin
The German Klimaschau right here presents a brand new video, this one that includes a brand new examine on the Antarctic Ice Shelf revealed in Nature Geoscience:
Ice sheet “has grown”
In keeping with a College of Cambridge press launch dated Might 13, 2022, “The japanese Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet has grown in space during the last 20 years, on account of altering wind and sea ice patterns.”
The press launch continues:
So what triggered the ice cabinets to advance? Within the absence of ambiance and ocean warming over the previous 20 years, the dominant management was discovered to be a change in regional wind patterns over the Weddell Sea, which served to push sea ice in opposition to the ice cabinets.
Between 1985 and 2002, in distinction, wind circumstances in the identical space triggered sea ice to maneuver away from the coast. By eradicating the buttressing impact of the ocean ice and exposing the ice cabinets to damaging ocean waves, stress on the ice cabinets elevated, in the end resulting in calving of icebergs.”
Notice the press launch appears to be stating there’s been no warming at this area.
The U. of Cambridge press launch additionally provides that the advance is linked on account of decade-scale [natural] modifications in atmospheric circulation, which has led to extra sea ice being carried to the coast by wind.
Co2- warming just isn’t what’s driving the ice exercise on the japanese Antarctic Peninsula.
