Man-Made CO2 Emissions Play No Role In Larsen Ice Shelf Melt
There are four main reasons why Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf may be melting. None of them involve human forcing or CO2 concentration changes.
Scientists have recently completed an exhaustive 20-year study of the “most significant causes of melting” of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula.
They have concluded the four main surface melt drivers are:
- Shortwave solar radiation.
- Foehn wind variations.
- Cloud cover changes.
- Natural circulation variations (SAM, ENSO).
Neither anthropogenic forcing nor CO2 emissions are listed as causal factors in Antarctic ice melt processes.
Image Source: Gilbert et al., 2022
Until 1,000 to 2,000 years ago, Antarctica was up to 5°C warmer than it is presently.
Open-water conditions prevailed throughout most of the Holocene (the last 11,700 years) in the same area where the massive Larsen Ice Shelf exists today (Domack et al., 2001).
Image Source: Domack et al., 2001
In other words, there is nothing even remotely unusual about any Antarctic ice melt or climate trends that cannot be explained by or attributed to natural, non-anthropogenic processes.
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Header image: Inside Climate News
Editor’s note: looking at the header image, the Larsen C shelf is close to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, which is volcanically active, a thousand miles from the pole, and in a significantly warmer climate, so should we not expect melting?
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T. C. Clark
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The warmists want Antarctica to melt …they will find ways to melt it….along with the Arctic and all the glaciers….the melt must continue…the seas must rise….and warm…and become acidic…and the storms must grow worse and more numerous….and the sky…it must fall….watch out!
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Kevin Doyle
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A few years back, one of the chunks of ice in a bay in Antarctica broke off.
No one at BBC nor CNN bothered to explain it was because of a large wave caused by an undersea earthquake west of South America!
Most curious…
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