By Jim Steele

Psychiatrists label patients, who don’t recognize their self-generated fears but instead attribute those fears to an external and objective environment, as suffering from a Paranoid or Delusional Disorder.

For example, alarmists scientist readily embrace ridiculous catastrophic predictions from their own climate models, without ever acknowledging that in fact it could be their own fears and biases when constructing those models, that generated such catastrophic outcomes.

Furthermore, click-bait media and politicians feed on the public’s hunger for doomsday scenarios to justify their paranoia. Such a mental infliction is why scientific truths fail to sway climate morons.

The media is filled with stories claiming fossil fuel burning or eating of meat is causing Antarctica to melt. For example, our government’s National Public Radio (NPR) pushed this propaganda piece: “Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt!”

However, if a paranoid public ever questioned the origin of their fears, simply looking at Antarctica’s actual temperatures (lower left graph), they would counter such misinformation! Every major research station on the continent reports below freezing average annual temperatures (highlighted by red boxes).

The temperatures listed below those averages represent the temperature range at the station. For example, Vostok has an average of -55°C (−67°F) but has a range of 38°C, and its lowest recorded temperature is −89.2°C (−128.6°F). Only a paranoid climate moron would believe global warming was melting ice around Vostok!

The Thwaites “Doomsday” glacier is a favorite amongst the fear mongering click-bait media. The nearby Byrd research station records an average -27.9°C, so clearly air temperatures are not melting the glacier. Still climate morons naively think if one grounding point melts, the glacier will slide into the ocean and raise sea level. But recent scientific research shows Antarctica’s topography has numerous potential grounding points that would prevent such an event from ever happening.

Nonetheless, a British Antarctic Survey scientist, believing all powerful CO2 and humans control the fate of Antarctica’s glaciers, was easily deluded by her model that showed any changes in CO2 emissions will have no effect. She lamented, “It appears that we may have lost control of the West Antarctic ice shelf melting over the 21st century.” But she ignored the main cause of glacier melting.

Virtually all scientists agree, Antarctica’s glaciers that reach the ocean are melted from below by upwelling of Antarctica’s relatively warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW).

CDW is a layer of relatively warm salty water deeper than 300 meters that sits below the much colder but fresher Antarctic surface waters. The CDW is a mix of warmer and saltier water from the world’s ocean. A major contribution comes from the North Atlantic Deep Water that formed a thousand years ago in the Arctic.

It has been proven that changes in the winds’ location and strength, such as driven by the Amundsen Low, can cause decades of more upwelling of warm CDW. (lower right graphic). The Amundsen Lows’ effect on sea-ice was discussed here (https://twitter.com/JimSteeleSkepti/status/1745582006355005647…)

Only Alarmist Morons Believe Changes in Antarctic Sea Ice is a Climate Crisis Indicator!

From 1979 to 2015, the extent of Antarctic sea ice increased, defying climate model predictions and alarmists’ expectation (graph A-1). Then a sudden sea ice decrease in 2016 got the… pic.twitter.com/MAd90v1giX

— Jim Steele (@JimSteeleSkepti) January 11, 2024

As was shown to be the case for wind driven changes in sea-ice extent, the Amundsen Low is naturally affected by El Nino and La Nina conditions that will strengthen or weaken upwelling of warmer waters.

Antarctica’s scientific ocean observations only began in the late 1990s, so long-term trends are not yet detectable yet. But climate scientists are largely in agreement that during the Little Ice Age, the Pacific was in a El Nino like pattern, while for the last 150 years the Pacific has been dominated by a more La Nina-like pattern. It seems most likely, that changes arbitrarily attributed to rising CO2, are more realistically due to changes in the oceans’ surface temperature configurations that have altered Antarctica’s low-pressure systems, and the periodic upwelling that melts its subsurface glaciers.