Scientists report faster warming in Antarctica

None of that was in the article I read.

HeIsSailing on December 24, 2012 at 9:50 PM

Right, you have to follow the links in that article to other articles and papers and dig it out because what they are spoon feeding you at the NYT is only part of the truth. It’s all in there, you just have to follow the links they give you.

crosspatch on December 24, 2012 at 10:01 PM

Even so, the article does not address the issue of no warming for the past 15 years. It says:

To try to get to the bottom of the question, David H. Bromwich of Ohio State University pulled together a team that focused on a single temperature record. At a lonely outpost called Byrd Station, in central West Antarctica, people and automated equipment have been keeping track of temperature and other weather variables since the late 1950s.

It is by far the longest weather record in that region, but it had intermittent gaps and other problems that had made many researchers wary of it. The Bromwich group decided to try to salvage the Byrd record.

They retrieved one of the sensors and recalibrated at the University of Wisconsin. They discovered a software error that had introduced mistakes into the record and then used computerized analyses of the atmosphere to fill the gaps.

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Much of the warming discovered in the new paper happened in the 1980s, around the same time the planet was beginning to warm briskly.

So, in other words, nothing. It says “West Antarctica peninsula might have warmed in the 1980s if we did our analysis correctly and if our understanding of the ‘software error’ is correct.” But it does not say that anything is CURRENTLY happening there.

crosspatch on December 24, 2012 at 10:21 PM