© NASA/Chris Larsen
German climate website Die kalte Sonne posted its 64th climate video here and examined a new paper on Antarctica by Zhu et al (2021): "An Assessment of ERA5 Reanalysis for Antarctic Near-Surface Air Temperature"
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) released its latest ERA5 reanalysis dataset in 2017 and Zhu and his researchers compared the near-surface temperature data from ERA5 and ERA-Interim with the measured data from 41 weather stations.
They found that the temperature trend from ERA5 is consistent with that from observations. The result: a cooling trend dominates East Antarctica and West Antarctica while a warming trend exists in the Antarctic Peninsula. Note that the regions of east and West Antarctica combined are vastly larger than the tiny Antarctic Peninsula.
Substantial cooling
The results are summarized as follows (cropped from Die kalte Sonne):
© Die kalte Sonne
West Antarctica has cooled at a rate of 0.42°C per decade over the past 40 years.
Die kalte Sonne finds the results "surprising" and "statistically significant". And though the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed moderately, Die kalte Sonne sees nothing significant happening over this comparatively small region.
This of course should be seen as good news for the global warming alarmists who fear the South Pole might melt.
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There is an alternative way to regard the warming AND VIRUS PANDEMIC hysteria; that way suggests that warming hysteria and the virus pandemic was invented as cover to divert World and popular attention away from something far more calamitous, even more immediate.
The Earth, in it’s celestial orbit, for about the last thousand years, has been in the position where it has always been subject to an Ice Age; The astronomers and scientists who know, say it is imminent; brief review of weather over last twelve months, seems to point that way in support.
Here is the rub! in shorthand version; if one considers all the remedy’s proposed to ward off “Warming” and the killer virus, and then compare that consideration, with the possible onset of an “Ice Age”, you are obliged to realise, that all such afore mentioned warming and virus remedy’s will actually be made real, whether humanity likes it or not. Will you imagine, the terror and turmoil that will ensue, once great swathes of humanity realise, that they live on land soon to be too cold and maybe miles deep under glaciers. Amen it is written.