Southern Ocean
surface cooling, while lower latitudes are warming, increases
precipitation on the Southern Ocean, increasing ocean stratification,
slowing deepwater formation, and increasing ice
sheet mass loss.
Increased precipitation on the Southern Ocean is also known as the snow/ice pack on Antarctica getting deeper/higher.
And no, the paper does not consider this.
Wrong sort of snow, innit?
“while lower latitudes are warming”
I thought AGW was supposed to warm HIGHER latitudes more, according to the warmists?
But that’s forgotten as soon as it becomes inconvenient, of course.
Is he a crook or a bloody fool? The categories are not mutually exclusive.
@Andrew Duffin,
The “polar amplification effect”. Which exists soley in the computer models and is no longer mentioned as incoweeenient.
Epicycles upon epicycles upon epicycles.
We simply do not know enough to make confident predictions.
I don’t get your point at all Tim. Why would precipitation on the ocean be the same thing as thickening ice on land?
Because snow doesn’t just fall on oceans?
My understanding of the Antarctic weather patterns is that in general the continent is very dry. If more snow is falling in the same areas that already get enough water one would think it wouldn’t make much of a difference.
The author should have taken the time to clarify why continental precipitation isn’t a factor and we could all be happy*.
*waits for people to be unhappy about being happy.
Tim’s the expert, obviously.
The caption to figure 18 in the paper explains “… Precipitation: increased freshwater flux cools ocean mixed layer, increases sea ice area, causing precipitation to fall before it reaches Antarctica, reducing ice sheet growth and increasing ocean surface freshening…”
Under no circumstances should Tim look at the circumpolar global temperature maps of the last few decades.
SJW,
Thank you for finding that tidbit I missed. The global sky is failing debate is rarely fair and balanced so when an article does include a key point it is shocking. I blame decreased atmospheric carbon dioxide for the reduced cognitive functions.
VVattsupwiththat.blogspot.com
very good