What is the lie? I just have quotes from both of you. People can decide who to believe. I'm not putting any judgement, just the competing quotes.
Palatine
"Just to be clear, Antarctica is NOT melting, this is according to the evidence from NASA satellites that show Antarctica is actually cooling" -- Palatine
It's simple. I am using the NASA numbers of actual measurements. He is using NASA speculation about 50 years from now.
And he doesn't know the difference. It's frustrating but I'm a teacher at heart.
NASA:
"The southernmost reach of global warming was believed to be limited to this narrow strip of land, while the rest of the continent was presumed to be cooling or stable.
Not so, according to a new analysis involving NASA data. In fact, the study has confirmed a trend suspected by some climate scientists.
"Everyone knows it has been warming on the Antarctic Peninsula, where there are lots of weather stations collecting data," said Eric Steig, a climate researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, and lead author of the study. "Our analysis told us that it is also warming in West Antarctica."
The finding is the result of a novel combination of historical temperature data from ground-based weather stations and more recent data from satellites. Steig and colleagues used data from each record to fill in gaps in the other and to reconstruct a 50-year history of surface temperatures across Antarctica.
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Now, lets consider credentials
Palatine: You already know all about him. Gets confused about the difference between history and speculation about the future (see above quote)
Eric Steig - completed his PhD in Geological Sciences at UW in 1995, was Research Associate at the University of Colorado and Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to UW in 2001. He directed the Quaternary Research Center from 2008-2013 and Chairs the current
Future of Ice Initiative. He is the founding co-director of
ISOLAB, a state-of-the art isotope geochemistry facility involving research ranging from climate and atmospheric chemistry to geobiology.