Not only is Antarctica not melting, but neither is Greenland. In fact, Greenland experienced none of the typical ice melt this summer. In a post at Not A Lot Of People Know That, Paul Homewood prints the facts on Greenland’s ice balance. He expands on this in a Watts Up With That Post. It was a cold and snowy summer on Greenland’s ice cap. The only melting occurred for two weeks in July and it was very minor. You look at the chart and you can see that Greenland’s ice mass has shown significant variation for centuries. We had cooling for much of mid-1900s, since then it has warmed some, totally in line with past cycles when temperature is measured properly and not according to hysterical methods.
This summer has been very unusual in that for the first time there was essentially no ice mass loss. And in the really big picture, Greenland’s ice cap over recent decades is as big as it has been in the last 10,000 years. So again, no need for panic, unfortunately no reason to think New York City or California or Massachusetts will be swallowed by the ocean.
