Scott's Hut and the Explorers' Heritage of Antarctica (Global Warming Buries South Pole in Snow)

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[Cementjungle]

On November 1, 1911, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott departed from Cape Evans on his Terra Nova Expedition, the legendary race against Norwegian Roald Amundsen to become the first man to reach the South Pole. Scott left behind a prefabricated, seaweed-insulated wooden cabin and its outbuildings, as well as scientific equipment used to measure the continent's fearsome climate.

[Cementjungle]

The money line:

Scott's Hut at Cape Evans is in imminent danger as a result of unprecedented snow and ice building up at the site—thought to be a result of changing climate conditions in Antarctica—with up to 100 tons of snow accumulating on the hut in a few short months.

[NewJerseyJoe]

IIRC, the "snow" at the South Pole isn't actually snow... I saw a program that said it's too cold there to snow as we (in temperate zones) know it. The snow is actually tiny crystals of ice that precipitate directly out of the air at the sub-freezing temperatures. Still looks like snow to us.

Subject to correction from any Antarctic experts, of course.

[theBuckwheat]

Also of interest is the case of Glacier Girl, the P38 fighter airplane that landed on the Greenland glacier in 1944 and was retrieved some 50 years later from below almost 300 feet of ice. Now, it has not sunk, it had been buried by the accumulated snows.

[pabianice]

"You... you... DENIER you!"

[maine-iac7]

50 years later from below almost 300 feet of ice. Now, it has not sunk, it had been buried by the accumulated snows.

Yipes. 300ft in only 50 yrs?

Hope that weight is balanced out in the north - or that could precipitate a pole shifting warble???

We're doing our part up here in Maine - (winter 2007-8)

[ICE-FLYER]

Having been to the South Pole over 200 times as a pilot I have seen it and many other areas of Greenland and Antarctica. The snow is 2.5 MILES thick at the south pole. It moves about 33 feet each year. At other locations its over 3 miles thick. The global warming myth is one of the biggest lies I have ever been witness to. Scott's hut at McMurdo is NOT being buried under snow but in other places around the edges of Antarctica they ARE being buried. And yes...the snow cap at pole is GROWING. No...it does not snow there but snow does blow in from the edges of the continent.
The new South Pole station is built on stilts over 15 feet off the surface and are capable of being JACKED up to stay ahead of the building snow. Is this at least not interesting to the Global Warming myth folks?

[Iron Munro]

After 4.5 billion years of change on earth it is the height of arrogance for the Al Gore / Chicken Little crowd to take a snapshot of conditions and demand that we expend our energy and resources to maintain everything as it was during that one blink of an eye.

For a crowd that is in rapture about electing a man that claims he will bring them all sorts of unidentified change they sure don’t seem very open to naturally occurring change.

[Number_Cruncher]

I spent about 3 weeks at the South Pole one year. It was clear all the time but there was a constant fall of ice crystals from the clear blue sky. -40 F when I arrived and -5 F when I left.

Also the old polar station was buried under many feet of ice and had drifted several thousand feet away from the pole.

[steelyourfaith]

 

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