South Pole getting colder
So where’s the warming? Where’s the CO2? As the facts start to pile up a lot of people on the left must be getting worried about having invested so much of their credibility in Global Warming.
Here’s the latest on the ‘warming’ oceans and ’shrinking’ ice caps:
Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder
ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2008) – The Antarctic deep sea is getting colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. This is the first result of the Polarstern expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association that has just ended in Punta Arenas/Chile. At the same time satellite images from the Antarctic summer have shown the largest sea-ice extent on record. In the coming years autonomous measuring buoys will be used to find out whether the cold Antarctic summer induces a new trend or was only a “slip”.
And on the CO2 that is apparently choking the planet:
In the frame of the GEOTRACES project the scientists found the smallest iron concentrations ever measured in the ocean. As iron is an essential trace element for algal growth, and algae assimilate CO2 from the air, the concentration of iron is an important parameter against the background of the discussion to what extent the oceans may act as a carbon sink.
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