When an ice shelf melts, no sea level rise is experienced; if a huge chunk of earth-bound glacier melts and goes kerplunk, the level rises as it does when you drop an olive in your drink.
This has been going on for as long as we have had explorations there; new snow falls every year and the resultant flow is still about 2mm year total sea rise.
The conditions now are repeated each autumn in the Antarctic.
The concern now is that the overall temperatures are higher than around 1920 or so when we first established stations.
It is also important to notice that the next fundraising go-round is to be held in Bangkok at the end of this month until Apr. 4th.
We recently came out of the Little Ice Age in the early 1800’s which claimed a portion of the Earth’s water supply in the form of Ice and snow, captured by the frozen arctic regions at both ends of the Planet.
The water that is available to the Planet is either in solid or liquid form. The warming trend caused by the recent Solar Maximum has reclaimed some of the solid water, but there is now evidence that we may be headed for another “little Ice Age”, because of a sudden and severe lack of Solar activity. This may be why we have suddenly experienced a record cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere on both sides of the World.
Sun Spot activity as recently ceased to a degree that has not been observed since the beginning of the Little Ice Age. Time will prove this theory one way or the other, but the recent Global Warming trend was also observed on other Planets along with ours. Mars lost some of it’s ice cap in the last 10 years along with ours.
>>It is also important to notice that the next fundraising go-round is to be held in Bangkok at the end of this month until Apr. 4th.
Interesting. Do you have a link on that?