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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
To: EdnaMode
At -52f average temp in the antarctic,
a glacier would melt ONLY from global
warming.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:31:51 PM PST
by
Lean-Right
(Eat More Moose)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes....leave the USA out of the picture
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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)))
To: EdnaMode
Was it a black hole?
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:35:30 PM PST
by
Kenny Bania
(Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
To: The Unknown Republican
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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.)
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.
To: EdnaMode
It's the Silver Surfer!
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:43:07 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:46:29 PM PST
by
shotgun
To: EdnaMode
By Gosh they finally found it. The bottom of Mel’s Hole.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:47:56 PM PST
by
Revel
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.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:51:22 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: carriage_hill
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.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:55:00 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: EdnaMode
Dang! And I was planning to build my retirement home there. Just dang.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:57:52 PM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
To: Gahanna Bob
BINGO. They are really, really dumb.
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posted on
01/31/2019 4:57:53 PM PST
by
chuckb87
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!!
To: EdnaMode
The Nazi saucers have to get out somehow.
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posted on
01/31/2019 5:02:34 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
To: EdnaMode
To: Jim Noble
To: Rebelbase
Maybe it is the southern entrance to THE HOLLOW EARTH!
To: Rebelbase; Jim Noble
12 seconds!Scientific evidence that you two guys have identified the correct cause of this phenomenon.
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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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