Antarctic Meltwater occurs in sub-freezing temps due to 24/7 Summertime sunlight.

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 Antarctica ... or at a stretch of coarse Antarctic surface ice ... declaring that the Climate Armageddon has finally arrived.

Actually, these were "I-told-you-so videos," where the shallow inland meltwater ponds and/or unsmooth stretches of surface ice are declared evidence of an atmospheric overload of CO2 by which the oceans will soon rise to the point of drowning the Statue of Liberty.

Well, here is your atmospheric reality check, compliments of MIT,  Stanford U, Penn State, Chicago U, Columbia U, NASA, and the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative founded in 2009, after the Copenhagen Summit.  It comes in notes composed for novices, beginners, and newcomers to the world of atmospheric science.

The Antarctic meltwater ponds have nothing to do with air temperature.  They have everything to do with the Sun's ultraviolet light rays penetrating the Antarctic ice sheet twenty-four a day ... seven days a week ... for an approximate 6 month period.  

Now, CO2 must be ruled out as the driver of Antarctica's atmosphere per se, because Antarctica's high pressure atmosphere and its desert cold air automatically results in there being less of a concentration of CO2 in the sky there than in the skies of the Tropics & Equator. 

The concentration of CO2 anywhere in the atmosphere is VERY LOW

MORE SPECIFICALLY, Antarctica's natural meltwater formation goes as such, according to a 2016 science paper that addressed the Eastern Antarctic ice sheet.  It's found at:

https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/42771/

Next comes the widening of cracks on Antarctica's ice shelves and continental ice sheet.  It's actually known as Hydrofracturing.  We see ... from Stanford, Columbia U, and Chicago Univ ... that the following is the case:

      Here is where natural hydrofracturing of Antarctic's ice SHELVES is explained.

Here is where natural hydrofracturing of the Antarctic  ice sheet is explained.

Below:  This note addresses the ice shelves, while the one immediately below this note addresses the continental surface ice of Antarctica, aka the Ice Sheet.

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 cloud formations in the distance, off the coastlines.

3} The constant, 24/7, unblocked sunlight causes surface ice to melt, even where the temperatures are always below freezing.  This is due to ultraviolet light literally penetrating the ice, warming it from the inside.  The diminishing of the albedo effect then increases the melting of such ponds by allowing more ultraviolet light to reach the surface of Antarctica and penetrate the ice there.

The meltwater has nothing to do with the CO2 level of Earth's atmosphere.  In fact, it's meltwater's action that caused the widening of the cracks seen on the Antarctic Continental Ice Sheet & Ice Shelves.  This occurs in chronic sub-freezing temps.

The creation of meltwater has everything to do with the Sun's ultraviolet light rays & the lessoning of albedo which allows more ultraviolet light to penetrate the surface ice.  I've already explained albedo in a previous post or two ... or three.

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:   Well, the opposite is true.

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

Mediterranean heatwaves have a Sahara-based history, long before 2024

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Without including any name, rank, or serial number, someone wrote an insult to the intelligence of every history student in-the-know.  It came in an article whose title was printed in an exaggeratively large font.  Yet, just because you put a lie in really big letters, it doesn't automatically turn it into the truth.

The writer's thesis statement was that there could not have been the 2024 Mediterranean heatwave without there having been the present amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gases and this vague thing called "anthropogenic climate change."  

The bottom line here is that the author made it sound as if there were no heatwaves of substance in Southern European & the Mediterranean Coastline until the 2010s or 2020s.  The inference was that those Mediterranean heatwaves only came because of a rise in the atmospheric CO2 level.

Now, I can line-itemize a sample of the Mediterranean heatwaves beginning with the 1852 Italian heatwave ... or even the 1881 Mediterranean heatwave ... when the atmospheric CO2 level was below 290 ppm.  But, without posting evidentiary support, an Al Gore follower will simply resolve in his/her mind that the line-itemized text is a lie ... a fiction ... a pro-oil-company piece of propaganda.  

In this instance, newspaper article copies of the heatwaves of 1852, 1881, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1914, 1921, 1922, etc, are far more important than any lesson typewritten in 2026.

Okay then, after the mention of one blatant observation, let's let the newspaper articles do the talking, proverbially speaking.

Ye Observation of the hour:

Q:  What would be the predominate source of all of the heat which is ever-so-ready to provide high temperatures to Southern Europe, depending on the direction of the wind?

ANS:  The Sahara and the desert nations of Northern Africa.  Concerning this, Egypt IS 95% desert.  Algeria IS 80% desert.  Libya is 90% desert, and Morocco is 80% desert.  In fact, Tunisia is 75% desert, and those winds which carry Sahara heat into Southern Europe are known as SIROCCO WINDS.

The Sirocco Winds coming from a desert the size of the United States is the source of Southern Europe's intense summertime heat.  It is NOT CO2.  In as much, heatwaves in Southern Europe are NOT new editions arriving with the rise in CO2.  Southern European heatwaves are as old as the Sahara Desert, itself.

Let us begin with proof that heat-related deaths, by the dozen ... in small geographic pockets ... were being reported as far back as the 1850s, when the CO2 level was approximately 142 parts per million LESS than today's CO2 level of 432 ppm.  The report below is of 40 adults dying from the heat of St. Louis, on July 24, 1878:

And remember, the global weather from 1876 to 1878 was tragic, and this was when the CO2 Count was only 289 to 290 parts per million.  That amounts to 141 ppm LESS than today's 431 ppm.

In review, the Little Ice Age which began around 1274 ended around 1850, resulting in the start of the Modern Warm Period.  Well, by 1852, there was the reporting of a critical heatwave.  

Then came the Civil War Drought which began in mid-1850s and affected the American Central Plains and West.  Next came heat in the 1870s, accompanied by wildfire, the largest of which occurred in Peshtigo Wisconsin, in October of 1871.

       On the exact same day, the Great Chicago Fire occurred.

Then came the heatwaves of 1878, even during the Australian Summer.  

Below:  Minneapolis had no winter weather during Winter of 1878

Below:  Onward to Europe, in 1878, when the CO2 level was very very low, proving that Al Gore's declarative statement about CO2 being the cause of natural disasters is one big lie.

This was followed by heatwaves of 1881 and 1896, as well as other ones.  In as much welcome to the Modern Warm Period which brought heat to Planet Earth's atmosphere, even when the outdoor CO2 Count was below 310, 300, and 290 parts per million.

Once again, media entities are trying to paint the picture of the world finally being overcome by deadly "greenhouse gases," where mankind must begin a Climate Dictatorship, where cattle must literally be sacrificed.  

Even at that, the present ... and not predicted ... radiative forcing of co2, as of 2019, was only 2.17 watts per meter squared.  The 3.7 w/m2 value is the prediction for co2, based upon its doubling of volume since the pre-industrial era.  At the start of the Industrial Era, CO2's atmospheric level was 273 parts per million.

That is to say, 3.7 watts per meter squared is only the prediction for the future event when co2 finally reaches twice the level of CO2 than it had in 1750.  In 1750, the CO2 level was 273, and of course, 273 times 2 = 546 ppm.

Today's co2 exists in the atmosphere at 431 or 432 ppm.  So, there is about 114 ppm to go, for CO2 to finally double its 1750 volume.  

If the CO2 volume rises 2 ppm per year, it would take 57 years it to have doubled since its pre-industrial level of 273 ppm.  If co2's presence in the atmosphere rises at a rate of 4 ppm per year, then it would take no more than 28 years for CO2's atmospheric level to reach 546 ppm.  

In light of the coal-fired power plants now operating in India and China, the idea of a rise of 4 ppm per year for CO2 is not science fiction.  In light of this, is it ever possible for the radiative forcing of a molecular compound which has been in the atmosphere since the Dinosaur era to rise 70%, in merely 28 years?  

Remember, there was an ice age when the CO2 level was 9 times MORE than today.  That was a rise in CO2 without a catastrophic inferno ensuing.  Then, when there was low CO2 in the atmosphere, there was a two-year global catastrophe of crop failure and famine.  You cannot blame the 1876 tragedy on CO2 or any other greenhouse gas.

Concerning the w/m2 prediction for CO2, one can now suspect yet another error from a computer model prediction.  One can now toss that computer-generated prediction into the bin with the predictions of  ~the Maldives going underwater by 2018 ... ~and the glaciers at Glacier National disappearing by 2020 ... ~England turning into a Siberia by 2018 ... ~East Manhattan slightly going underwater, at least up to a human's ankles ...

... ~and the Arctic Ocean becoming ice-free during August, starting in 2014 ... ~ along with the prediction worldwide crops failures. w/ global famine, that will kill hundreds of millions of people throughout the 1970s, according the most worthless & paranoid fearmongerer of them all, the late Paul Ralph Erhlich who never saw a single one of his doomsday prophecies come true. 

However, 90 to 92 years prior to Ehrlich's doomsday predictions was the GREAT GLOBAL FAMINE.  It occurred between 1876 and 1878, when the CO2 Count was 290 ppm.  Approximately 50-60 million deaths ensued.

 

1878's CO2 Count amounts to 156 ppm LOWER than today's CO2 level, and today is an era of mostly successful crop yields ... with occasional local exceptions, such as the low Italian wine grape yields of 2023 and 2024 which ended up being followed by a record high grape yield in the same land of my Italian ancestors ... okay, my Italian cousins.

Ironically & hypocritically, the most abundant greenhouse gas is WATER VAPOR which leaves behind NO CARBON FOOTPRINT.

Oh, and concerning the sea level around the Statue of Liberty's Liberty Island ... formerly known as Bedloe's Island, the rise was found to have been no more than 0.1184 inches per year which translated into about 11.8 inches per century ... or a foot a century.  If you're European, that amounts to 2.79mm per year.

More important is the reminder that, until 1993, tide gauges did all the measuring of the sea level around Bedloe's Island.  And ever so coincidentally, 1993 was when Al Gore became vice president of the United States. 

None the less, after 1993, uncalibrated satellite usage replaced the tide gauges, and ever so coincidentally, the sea level rise spiked.  It's one of those apples or oranges things.  Observe the following graph, posted pursuant to 17 USC 107:

Heat Dome Science

Now, it was just reported that, in June of 2026, 18 people in France died during a 2026 heatwave.  Well, it was actually during a HEAT DOME which is NOT directly attached to CO2.  Such a thing is attached to a high pressure blocking system which traps air into a state of stagnation.

Moreover, France is 211,000 square miles in size.  Thus, during the heat dome which is provenly NOT caused by CO2 injecting any extra heat into France, there was one death in France for every 11,722 square miles.   

The amount of space covered by 11,700 sq mi is equivalent to you driving 108 miles and making a left for another 108 miles, and then another left for another 108 miles, and a final left for the final 108 miles.

Beware of Skewed Numerical Propaganda

Skewing numbers to convince mankind into submitting to your dictates is an element of fraudulent misrepresentation.  

None the less, all heat deaths deserve a measure of compassion and respectfulness.  The problem today is that the Climate Propagandists show disrespect for the recently dead and presently dying, by howling out propaganda which concludes that the Al Gore & the Michael Mann & the John Kerry People must now rule Planet Earth, and that we all must comply, as if the Ottoman Empire 2.0 returned to enslave & torment humanity all the more.

Now remember, intense Southern European heat, and high pressure blocking system heat has been documented in Southern Europe's media since 1881, when the CO2 level was almost the same as it was during the Italian Renaissance and French Revolution.

Now, there were the reports of ITALY undergoing an intense heatwave in 1852, according to Copernicus.eu.  Yet, 1852 was a time of limited news.  None the less, heatwaves are regarded by the honest as having been a part of the Mediterranean climate, all along ... and not a new occurrence, due to the rise in CO2.

Then came 1881.  Now, the 1896 heatwave was an American experience.  In 1901 and 1906, Europe was visted by heatwaves.  Below is a 1901 news report of the New York Times.

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Do you get the point, yet?  Or are you irreparably brainwashed?  The Nazis and Julius Streicher had nothing over the Climate Propagandists of today.  It's merely the same ole same ole.  Only the names of the aspiring dictators change.

Weather during the 1,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution was NOT mild

                         

America:  The Grifter's Paradise.  This includes Climate Grifters.

Even when the atmospheric CO2 Count was 325, 300, and 280 parts per million ... which happen to be low levels compared to today's 431 ppm ... weather disasters abounded throughout Planet Earth.  This included 887, 1287, 1360, and 1362 CE.  History shows us that it's a lie to claim that the rise in CO2 causes natural disasters to increase in number and in intensity.  

Those who claim this have severe financial conflicts of interest, especially when it comes to taxpayer funding & NGO funding, as well as YouTube dollars.  They tell humanity Climate Horror Stories for profit.  

The money also comes out of the pockets of the taxpaying American, as well as the YouTube advertiser.  It has been a matter of Theft by Deception, evidenced by specific contradictions in conduct, in historic fact, and in scientific literature.  

The great environmental disaster of today is the glut of synthetic chemicals that flood civilization.  Such chemicals are respiratory irritants, respirator allergens, dermal allergens, clastogens, carcinogens, and hormone disruptors.  Today's chemical glut is physical assault and battery upon humanity.  How many celebs speak out about this issue?

                Incidentally, below is a definition of a clastogen

This post is actually part 1 of a two part series, where the two posts having different titles.  The link to part 2 is at the end of this post.  We begin herein with these CO2 stats:

Now, keep in mind that, even one hundred years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, in 1860, the Atmospheric CO2 Level was 280 part per million.  Two hundred years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, the CO2 level was 315 ppm.  Yet, at low CO2 levels, natural disasters abounded throughout civilizations.

From a podium, in front of an audience, on different occasions, both Michael Mann & David Attenborough  verbally asserted that Planet Earth's climate was mild for the one thousand year period preceding the Industrial Revolution.  

They both went on to say that weather disasters didn't occur in any substantial amount ... or in any substantial intensity ... until the rise in atmospheric CO2.  Of course, throughout the Al Gore Sphere, the confident claim is that increased CO2 levels increase the number of natural disasters.

Needless to say, this is an insult to the intelligence of historians and history students everywhere.  Most types of weather disasters are the result of atmospheric turbulence, and there was a lot of airborne turbulence throughout the 1,000 period preceding the invention of the steam engine.  

So, examples are in order, to show that there were apocalyptic natural disasters during the Victorian Era, the Renaissance Era, the Medieval Era, and even the Dark Ages, when the atmospheric CO2 count was much lower than today.  

Examples of weather disasters occurring long before the atmospheric rise in CO2 include ... but are in no way limited to ...

... a mini End of the World in 1287 which destroyed 50,000 to 80,000 personal worlds in the Netherlands and along the German coastline.  It literally altered coastlines.  This occurred 473 years BEFORE the start of the Industrial Revolution, when the atmospheric CO2 count was very very low ... at 285 parts per million.

In fact, when it comes to nature altering entire coastlines during the centuries of low atmospheric CO2, there was also 1362:

Moreover, two years prior to the Grote Mandrenke, France underwent a sudden storm on Easter Monday which killed 1,000 British soldiers and 6,000 horses, resulting in the highest casualty count of any day in the Hundred Years War.

Even in the century prior, IN AMERICA ... during the 1200s CE ... there was a megadrought.  In fact, megadroughts during the days of very low atmospheric CO2 was a part of the climate pattern of southwestern North America which is known today as New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah.

As another example of severe weather disasters long before the rise in atmospheric CO2, there was 1473:

Even during the reign of the infamous Henry VIII, there was a severe drought, and this Tudor Drought occurred 220 years BEFORE the start of the Industrial Revolution in England.  Thus, it's yet more evidence that Al Gore, Michael Mann, John Kerry, David Attenborough, and political operatives at the U.N. think that you're stupid and easy to trick.  Those people have zero respect for you.

And let us not forgot about eastern Asia during this era.  Concerning this, keep in mind that the industrial revolution did NOT begin in Japan until 1870.

Note: Suo & Nagato constitute Japan

           

Added note:  The Industrial Revolution did NOT begin in Japan until 1870.   Plus, even in 1910 & 1945, the atmosphere CO2 count was still below 311 parts per million.

By now, you should get the point.  If not, then you are a product of the 21st Century American public school system.

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