-PJ
Posted on 01/31/2019 3:59:17 PM PST by EdnaMode
Researchers say a massive cavity the size of two-thirds of Manhattan was found under a glacier in Antarctica. The pocket is a sign of "rapid decay" and just one of "several disturbing discoveries" made recently regarding the glacier, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a news release Wednesday.
"[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," said Pietro Milillo of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster."
The growing cavity sits in West Antarctica at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier, which is about as big as Florida and contains enough ice to contribute more than 2 feet to sea level rise, NASA said. It is growing at an "explosive" rate that surprised researchers conducting a study the agency led on the glacier.
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The anti-science hucksters are beyond belief . I am certain that they have been compromised , selling their souls for grant money. They should be ignored and shunned. What criminal nitwits .
-PJ
Global warming causing earth’s core to heat up then travel up through the hole to melt the ice.
So what? There are lots of much bigger Ice Holes in Washington D.C. and in the media. Pelosi is probably the biggest Ice Hole in the world and I have not heard anyone suggesting how to get rid of her.
A pocket of that size is dwarfed by a glacier the size of Florida. They probably exist under other glaciers and maybe always have. Who knows?
Baloney.
The ocean surface is so big, a berg the size of Florida would change sea height almost none.
It doesn’t happen to be under an old whaling station does it?
Farging ice hole.
LOL! I don’t think so! Ain’t it amazing???
It’s called Iceland!
Stinking bastages!
Nope it’s very versatile.
LOL. Scary thought.
Also... no one Eder seems to think about what will happen next if the poles actually melt... namely that a large forest will grow down there... sucking up all that water... also... the melt from the North Pole will offset the increase from the South Pole...
Could there be an underwater volcano, under the glacier, sending up warm water?
Maybe they are just depending on a scientifically illiterate public?
The article is about a glacier, not icebergs.
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