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"Disturbing" discovery: Giant hole found under Antarctica glacier
CBS News ^ | January 31, 2019 | Sarah Lynch Baldwin

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; artarctica; climatechange; fakescience; glacier; glaciers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globebullwarming; globullwarming; greennewdeal; jpl; lol; nasa; pietromilillo; pseudoscience; thwaitesglacier
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To: EdnaMode
Maybe the Norwegians blew it up...
21 posted on 01/31/2019 4:06:42 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: EdnaMode
Ignorant article by an equally ignorant author!

Maybe this has something to do with it?? Previously unsuspected volcanic activity confirmed under West Antarctic Ice Sheet at Pine Island Glacier


The authors of these GloBull Warming articles are always scientifically illiterate!
22 posted on 01/31/2019 4:07:10 PM PST by MMaschin (The difference between strategy and tactics!)
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To: EdnaMode

Did Nancy Pelosi go skin-diving there?


23 posted on 01/31/2019 4:10:23 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: EdnaMode

I’ll bet if we(America) pay more taxes, it’ll be okay.


24 posted on 01/31/2019 4:10:34 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: EdnaMode

Ok the UFO left because of Global Warming and left it’s hole ,LOL


25 posted on 01/31/2019 4:10:41 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: allendale

Heard he is prepping for his announcement to throw is hat in the ring.


26 posted on 01/31/2019 4:11:26 PM PST by easternsky
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To: BipolarBob

It’s the new data center for Hillary 2020.


27 posted on 01/31/2019 4:11:34 PM PST by relictele
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To: EdnaMode

Is there anything global warming can’t do?


28 posted on 01/31/2019 4:11:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: MMaschin

Gosh, weren’t we told we have to have volcanic activity to combat the climate change ??? Where is the problem ???


29 posted on 01/31/2019 4:11:44 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: EdnaMode

Fire those Obama holdovers at NASA


30 posted on 01/31/2019 4:11:56 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: EdnaMode

A few weeks ago they were telling us about active volcanoes under the ice.


31 posted on 01/31/2019 4:12:15 PM PST by odawg
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To: BipolarBob

The hole wasn’t there in 2016. Al Gore has sworn depositions from a dozen penguins attesting to that. He will hand them to Adam Schiff as evidence in the impeachment process against President Trump. If destroying Mother Earth isn’t a high crime and misdemeanor, what would be?


32 posted on 01/31/2019 4:12:58 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: MMaschin
The authors of these GloBull Warming articles are always scientifically illiterate!

Yeah, well that's just your opinion, man.

Maybe the volcanoes are caused by global warming too, didja ever think of that?

33 posted on 01/31/2019 4:13:36 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: EdnaMode

And the cure is to tax carbon?

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34 posted on 01/31/2019 4:13:45 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
What ever happened to that giant hole in the ozone over Antarctica? I thought that was supposed to kill us all by now by sucking the atmosphere off the Earth.

It repaired itself just like this will.

35 posted on 01/31/2019 4:14:00 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: EdnaMode

Jeez, just when I thought that NASA was cleaning up its act. They have to go recruit and put on the payroll foreign idiots such as this Pietro Milillo to help them promote various forms of alarmism.

We’re not buying the crap anymore, NASA.


36 posted on 01/31/2019 4:14:06 PM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENT)
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To: EdnaMode

I want active volcanos and I want them yesterday


37 posted on 01/31/2019 4:14:24 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Liberals, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: MMaschin

I used to remember the number but there are quite a few active volcanoes in Antartica.


38 posted on 01/31/2019 4:14:39 PM PST by Reily
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To: bigdaddy45

I can’t sleep any longer ror the fear of it...


39 posted on 01/31/2019 4:15:01 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe that’s the portal of hell all the democrats crawled out of.


40 posted on 01/31/2019 4:15:15 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel & a deplorable.)
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