Antarctic Land Surface Temperature (part 1)

I take a look at land surface temperature for the Antarctic continent to find rather patchy data and a situation that is being shamelessly exploited by the alarmist press

In the last article we took a look at Antarctic sea ice extent in relation to sea surface temperature only to discover a complex picture. Between 1979 and 1993 sea ice extent waxed and waned with the seasons, with no obvious relationship to sea surface temperature. After 1993 a modest negative relationship appears between sea ice extent and SST. What we…