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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: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Gee, thanks, Max, for planting that image in my head before I’ve eaten dinner. You bastard. LOL


61 posted on 01/31/2019 4:31:07 PM PST by Viking2002
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To: EdnaMode

At -52f average temp in the antarctic,
a glacier would melt ONLY from global
warming.


62 posted on 01/31/2019 4:31:51 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes....leave the USA out of the picture


63 posted on 01/31/2019 4:32:46 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: EdnaMode
Was it a black hole?


64 posted on 01/31/2019 4:35:30 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: The Unknown Republican

What movie was that?


65 posted on 01/31/2019 4:38:03 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Steely Tom
Maybe the volcanoes are caused by global warming too, didja ever think of that?

Actually, to be technically correct, they are, and that is the source of the whole damnable fraud.

66 posted on 01/31/2019 4:39:48 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: EdnaMode
It's the Silver Surfer!


67 posted on 01/31/2019 4:43:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: carriage_hill

It more like a drop in a bucket. The oceans of the world are approximately 140 million square miles. The size of Florida is approximately 65,755 square miles.


68 posted on 01/31/2019 4:46:29 PM PST by shotgun
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To: EdnaMode

By Gosh they finally found it. The bottom of Mel’s Hole.


69 posted on 01/31/2019 4:47:56 PM PST by Revel
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To: EdnaMode
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.

Sheesh! Talk about #FakeScience.

70 posted on 01/31/2019 4:51:22 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: carriage_hill

The Thing


71 posted on 01/31/2019 4:54:46 PM PST by The Unknown Republican
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To: Steely Tom
I guess it's disturbing because it indicates heat is coming from under the glacier.

Where the atmosphere can't reach it. Where ocean currents can't reach it. Yet they will claim it's due to GlobalClimateWarmingChange.

72 posted on 01/31/2019 4:55:00 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: EdnaMode

Dang! And I was planning to build my retirement home there. Just dang.


73 posted on 01/31/2019 4:57:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Gahanna Bob

BINGO. They are really, really dumb.


74 posted on 01/31/2019 4:57:53 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: EdnaMode

DON’T GO IN! THERE ARE SHOGGOTHS THERE! And blind giant penguins along with other creepie crawlies.

Those mountains can drive you to MADNESS!!


75 posted on 01/31/2019 5:01:28 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: EdnaMode
The Nazi saucers have to get out somehow.


76 posted on 01/31/2019 5:02:34 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: EdnaMode

Secret Nazi base.


77 posted on 01/31/2019 5:02:46 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Jim Noble

12 seconds!


78 posted on 01/31/2019 5:04:48 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Maybe it is the southern entrance to THE HOLLOW EARTH!


79 posted on 01/31/2019 5:05:14 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Rebelbase; Jim Noble
12 seconds!

Scientific evidence that you two guys have identified the correct cause of this phenomenon.

80 posted on 01/31/2019 5:09:16 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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