South Pole Below -70C (Again); Sunshine Studies; + Greenland Was Warmer Before
Clouds are the largest regulators of Earth’s energy balance, yet the public has been trained to pay them little mind.
South Pole Falls Below -70C Again
On June 22, the low at the South Pole Station registered a biting -71.3C (-96.3F). That makes eight days this month with a minimum below -70C (-94F).
For several weeks now, a stark, colder-than-average air mass has sat over Antarctica, with temperatures in parts of the continent running more than 20C below the long-term average.
Most of the cold has remained locked over the ice sheet.
But in recent days, lobes of that cold air have been spilled north into South America.
Santa Catarina, Brazil, opened winter with hard frost and subzero readings. Bom Jardim da Serra fell to -7.3C (18.9F), the state’s lowest temperature of the year so far. Urubici dropped to -3.8C (25.1F), with Urupema at -5.2C (22.6F).
Central Chile is facing lows of -4C (24.8F) this week. In Argentina, the national weather service has issued cold alerts for parts of Neuquén, Mendoza, San Luis, Córdoba, San Juan, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán and Jujuy.
This southern cold pool has been persistent, deep, and strong enough to leak into South America (and Australia and New Zealand). It will lead to an anomalously cold June across Antarctica. But the warmists won’t care about that.
These coffee-spitters have been too distracted by a slither of summer heat in western Europe. They won’t know about the High Arctic also, which is posting record low temperatures for June. They won’t know that western Europe’s heat isn’t ‘global’ warming. Only 1.2% of the planet was hotter than France’s hottest place on Monday (map below). That isn’t global warming, clearly, that is an unusually hot France.
Sunshine Studies
Three recent studies, covering Poland, Brazil and Nigeria, point to the same basic mechanism: more sunshine, fewer blocking clouds, more solar radiation reaching the surface, and higher temperatures.
