ChiefIO is musing on another possible cause for the warming peninsula.
“I was looking at another article on Antarctic Melting…
http://iceagenow.info/2014/10/misleading-reports-antarctic-melting/ that once again pointed out that it is only the West Antarctic Peninsula that is warming up a bit (if you can call frozen ‘warming’…) and not all of Antarctic,” writes Chiefio.
“I’m going to offer another “possible”. Perhaps it is the wind, and where it comes from. Looking at Nullschool, it looks to me like the WAP is being warmed by a nice Pacific breeze. Warm air entering on that side, frozen air exiting the other side of Antarctica.
Chiefio then shows shots of the nullschool animated wind map to show why he thinks that way.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/why-warm-wap-one-wonders/
Thanks to Ron de Haan for this link