"Disturbing" discovery: Giant hole found under Antarctica glacier

CBS News ^ | January 31, 2019 | Sarah Lynch Baldwin

[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.

[EdnaMode]

There's a hole in the glacier, dear Liza a hole.

[bigdaddy45]

We’re doomed.

[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.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Is the hole due to global warming???

Are the poles really melting? A number of years ago, Al Gore warned that the Arctic would be ice free. But it seems there is as much ice as ever up there.

[hinckley buzzard]

I think that happens when your glacier is sitting atop a volcano.

[allendale]

Most likely the result of vents from deep in the earth reaching the surface. BTW. Anyone know where Al Gore is staying during this polar vortex. Seems to have gone silent.

[FreedomPoster]

Volcanos are warming da Erf!

[al_c]

[Steely Tom]

I guess it's disturbing because it indicates heat is coming from under the glacier.

[Gahanna Bob]

Riddle me this: If they just discovered the cavity, how do they know it is growing at a rapid pace. Maybe the cavity has been there a million years.

[Carriage Hill]

“...contains enough ice to contribute more than 2 feet to sea level rise...”

Maybe >2”, but I doubt 2ft, worldwide.
Smells like AGW BS to me.

[chiller]

Bingo ! Or all that hot air finds its way underneath the mass of Antartica.

Let me think about it.

[BipolarBob]

Does this have anything to do with the Paris Climate Treaty>

[Steve_Seattle]

Two-thirds the size of Manhattan? Somehow, I’m not alarmed.

[no-to-illegals]

See BS. And nothing else matters

[Tennessee Nana]

“This hole is large enough to hold all of Hillary’s Emails,” he said adding that the state department had begun to remove suspicious items stamped ‘Top Secret’

[BradyLS]

Of course there is. And just in time, too.

[Col Frank Slade]

The hole in Antarctica caused by Y2K.

[Kommodor]

Nah, that’s just where they keep the secret alien base.

[no-to-illegals]

Algore been speaking down there ???