[Red Badger]

PinGGG!.....................

[minnesota_bound]

Who knew that water flowed.....

[PapaBear3625]

Notice they don't seem to mention West Antarctica's volcanoes and geothermal springs as a source of melting ice.

Bathing in Antarctic hot springs

[Tell It Right]

No surprise. Over the past two decades there have been a few deep soil studies in Antarctica showing Antarctica experienced the same Medieval Warm Period that the rest of the world did (roughly 1,000 years ago). Then it cooled like the rest of the world did during the Little Ice Age (roughly 1300 to early to mid 1800's), and has been warming since (Current Warm Period).

Even the Antarctic studies have shown that the Current Warm Period hasn't gotten as warm as the last one. (In Antarctic science lingo, the "maximum ice shelf retreat" was 1,000 years ago.) Considering how well the rest of the world had crop yields improved, rain patterns were more predictable, and plagues went down during the Medieval Warm Period we'd all be lucky if temps keep rising to what they were the last time.

[bgill]

Even my cats knew this.

[fso301]

An ice skate works because weight on the blade results in a change of state and a thin layer of water forms beneath the blade. The blade is hydroplaning.

So, think about how much water a glacier, or thick ice sheet pressing against bedrock produces.