Watts Up With That’s continued ignorance regarding Antarctic sea ice
Posted by Jimalakirti in Climate Change
at 9:49 am on Monday, 15 March 2010
at 9:49 am on Monday, 15 March 2010
Steve Goddard at Watts Up With That has it fixed in his mind that increasing Antarctic sea ice is caused by cooling. When I pointed out that the Southern Ocean where the sea ice forms is actually warming, Steve responded by labelling Skeptical Science a “scummy blog” and a partaker of “intellectual sloppiness“. On a more positive side, he also dropped by to clearly articulate why he thinks the Southern Ocean is [cooling]. So let’s examine what the empirical data has to say about temperature trends in the waters around Antarctica.
Steve’s basis for Southern Ocean cooling comes from an NSIDC webpage, A brief look at Antarctic sea ice, which makes the following comment:
(Skeptical Science, March 15, 2010)