Quick note on today's Antarctic Meltwater Grifters

Operation IceBridge, Weddell Sea, 2017.
Compliments of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Ctr

Perhaps you have seen the "gotcha videos," where someone points at a shallow stretch of meltwater on the ice sheet of the  Antarctic continent ... or at a small area of coarse Antarctic surface ice.

The shallow meltwater pond and the uneven blocks of surface ice are declared to be proof of CO2 driven climate change that will cause the sea to rise so badly that the Statue of Liberty will drown.

Someone later notifies people that the "scientists" need to be funded by the United States taxpayer and whatever NGO fundraising group is willing to shell out money ... to those scientists.

Here is your reality check, compliments of MIT, aka the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:

Let's review reality:

1} Antarctica really does undergo six consecutive months of constant sunlight beating down upon its 2-mile thick ice sheet.

2} Antarctica is the driest desert on Earth, meaning that the sky above it is a contiguous high pressure system which has very little water vapor and very little "condensation nuclei."  This means that the Antarctic sky doesn't readily induce the development of clouds, even though you'll see some clouds off the coastline.

3} The constant, 24/7, unblocked sunlight causes surface ice to melt, even where the temperatures are always below freezing.

The meltwater has nothing to do with the CO2 level of Earth's atmosphere.  It has everything to do with the Sun's ultraviolet light rays.

Moreover, Antarctica naturally loses 85% or so of its sea ice in the Summertime, even where temperatures are below freezing.  It has nothing to do with the CO2 level.  It has to do with the wind and ocean currents pushing the ice away from the coastline ... and melting the ice with the unfrozen water below the ice, while the ice drifts to warmer regions away from the Antarctic coastline.

That water isn't being melted by CO2's contribution of infrared radiation.  That ice slowly floats away in the Summertime, compliments of the wind and the ocean currents.  Then it melts.

Oh, and then there's the lie told by the young climate activists about penguins needing Antarctic ice or they will be unable to breed, followed by the penguins going extinct:   The opposite is true.

Beware of Climate Grifters, especially when they act all so confident & assuring in what they assert.  That is where the term, Confidence Man, originated, by the way.  Today, we call them con artists;  sometimes smooth-talking snakes.  It has the same meaning, either way.