Science: "Antarctica Ice Expanding"

Sea ice around Antarctica has "increased” since the start of continuous satellite recordings in 1979 with any changes caused by natural climate variation. In a paper published earlier this year, four environmental scientists further state that any sign that humans are responsible for any change is “inconclusive.”

The mainstream media, as you know, has been shrieking about the sea ice in Antarctica for decades to promote the Net Zero fantasy.

Last year, the level of winter sea ice was reduced, which caused Financial Times Science editor Clive Cookson to exclaim that the entire area “faces a catastrophic cascade of extreme environmental events… that will affect climate around the world.”

However, Clive wasn't "following the science," as they say.

Be informed, not misled.

The Daily Sceptic said this: 

Over the satellite record, the scientists note there was a “prolonged and gradual” expansion of sea ice to around 2014 followed by a short period of sudden decline from 2014-19. Growth was then resumed, although there was a temporary downturn around 2022. These variations, which can also be observed before 1979, were caused by a number of natural atmospheric and oceanic factors. All of this is known of course, with the EU weather service Copernicus admitting recently that sea ice extent as a whole “shows large year-to-year variability and no clear long-term trend since 1979”. At the other end of the Earth, Copernicus correctly states that the cyclical decline in Arctic sea ice “has levelled off since 2007”.

Ward Clark observes, "Note the first sentence: 'With any changes caused by natural climate variation.' Yes, the climate changes. Yes, humans do have some effect - but our efforts, short of a full-scale global thermonuclear war, are a small part of it. Those changes are not sufficient to abandon our current technological lifestyle - or the abundant, affordable energy it requires."

There are variations, as there always have been, and some of them are surprisingly short-term when you consider the time scales on which the planet normally operates:

It must all be very bewildering for narrative-following journalists. Confusion no doubt reigned supreme in their unquestioning ranks when they chanced upon the comments last year of Dr. Walter Meier of the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre. He was in full activist mode when he claimed the 2023 winter sea ice dip was “so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind blowing.” But not perhaps as confused as Dr. Meier himself who 10 years earlier was part of a scientific team that cracked open the secrets of early Nimbus photographic data. These revealed significant Antarctica sea ice variability in the 1960s, including a high in 1964, not seen again until 2014, and a low in 1966, similar to the recent dip. At the time, Dr. Meier commented that extreme ice highs and lows “are not that unusual.”

Are the scientists following the "science," or are they following the foundations making the grants to study "global warming" and "climate change?"

The Financial Times headline reads: "Antarctica’s ‘staggering’ exposure to climate change worsens global threat."

But it doesn't.

Mr. Morrison concludes:

Thoughts and prayers are also the order of the day for those who set great store in all the coral disappearing. Three years of record growth on the huge Great Barrier Reef put an end to that headliner. Polar bears are just as bad and keep breeding to top up new Arctic highs. Satellites keep discovering vast colonies of penguins in Antarctica, and mainstream media seem shocked into complete silence to report that the eyes in the sky have detected a vast recent plant greening of the Earth.  There is a growing trend to debunk any ‘extreme’ weather claim – the great citizen journalist Paul Homewood even writes a book about the BBC’s more egregious climate howlers, every year no less, such is the volume to process.

The Net Zero project is starting to crumble around the world as citizens make their feelings known with votes, and sometimes with rocks. Nobody can or wants to live in a world without hydrocarbons. Crucial to this trend is an emerging understanding that the scientific process when it comes to climate has been trashed for decades and replaced with an increasingly laughable junk ‘settled’ science narrative.

In other words: Relax, and ignore the Chicken Littles. The sky is not falling. The Earth is not catching fire, and there's no need to rush to shut down all our coal and (especially) natural gas-powered generation plants. Although, if the green energy types were realistic, they would be advocating for clean, reliable, emissions-free nuclear power; they aren't, so that tells you how practical they really are. 

Takeaway

Some of the greatest ancient scientists were Christians, who were well aware of what the Bible said about our material universe.

In fact, the Bible gives scientists unique insights into scientific facts.

The Bible contains scientific facts that the writers could not have known at the time. Modern science has confirmed these facts: 

• The creation account: The Bible's creation account includes elements of time, space, matter, and energy. 
• Gravity: Job 26:7 describes the Earth as suspended over nothing, which is a scientific fact. 
• The water cycle: Job 26:8 and Job 36:27-28 describe the water cycle, including evaporation, precipitation, and condensation. 
• The Earth's core: Job 28:5 describes the Earth as being transformed below by fire. 
• Astronomy: Genesis 22:17 and Jeremiah 33:22 describe the stars as innumerable, and Jeremiah 31:35 describes them as following a predictable pattern. 
• The Earth's shape: Isaiah 40:22 and Psalm 103:12 describe the Earth as round, not flat. 
• Blood circulation: the essence of life, Leviticus 17:11 describes blood circulation. 

Modern science is a product of a Biblical worldview, with its belief in God and the world under God's law. Without that substructure, science quickly disintegrates.

Psalm 24:1-3, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.  For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.  Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place?"

Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.