Antarctica Is Covered With Flowing Water, And That Worries Scientists

Weather.com ^ | 4/21/17 | Andrea Thompson

[Impala64ssa]

Well gang, looks like we got another naturally occurring phenomenon for Algore and the environazis to exploit. I wonder if Leo DiCrapio will take his Diesel belching yacht to the Antarctic ice shelf while he chills out on the deck sipping mai tais surrounded by blonde bimbos in skimpy bikinis, all in the name of saving the planet?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

These Corporate Marxists will claim that we should all fear and cower over the melt off of the Rockies during the springtime.

[DoughtyOne]

My bet is it’s a group of Global Warming scientists, they’re scared, and it’s yellow water.

[SgtHooper]

Yeh, it worries these liberal arts jacka$$es because it might impact their bogus grants for studying the Albanian ice rat.

[ClearCase_guy]

Just starting to understand
Don’t know
Can’t tell
Complex systems

So, obviously we need to panic and de-industrialize, because, you know, it’s our fault.

[PIF]

Yes melting ice in the spring and summer in the Antarctic is absolutely tragic - when it all melts sea levels will rise a whopping 40 feet and everyone on Earth will either drown or have to leave for a dryer planet ...

[Darksheare]

Glaciers tend to have moving water under them, especially at the contact points with bedrock.
Amazing they looked at the mechanics of the last ice age, how the ice behaved over rock, and then promptly forget said mechanics upon declaring everything to be “global warming”

[cssGA30005]

sky is falling... sky is falling.. run .. run away

[butlerweave]

Well if ice kept building at the Antarctica it would make the Earth so heavy down there it would fall out of space ,D’oh

[dowcaet]

Speaking of Algore, didn’t he predict the Arctic would be ice free by 2013? These globalist warming leftists are nothing but evironmental hucksters promising solutions to problems they have no idea of how to fix nor have any intention to fix anyways while conning dumb rich liberals to fork over money that ends up in their bank accounts. Isn’t that right Algore?

[TigersEye]

When those ice shelves are destabilized or crumble, the glaciers behind them flow faster, ferrying more land-bound ice to the ocean and raising global sea levels.

#FakeScience! Sea level is rising but at an historically slow pace for this interglacial period.

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.

From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.

[I want the USA back]

Climate changes. The overwhelming bulk of the changes are due to the sun and its cycles. Some of the rest is caused by man. The changes are in both directions, so get over it.

[Wuli]

The viscosity of ice changes under intense pressure. The depth of continental ice in both the arctic and antarctic areas is massive. At the bottom the pressure is so great ice change to a liquid, without changing its temperature. As it moves, by gravity, it combines just as water on open land does, from tiny streams, to creeks, to rivers. It also is part of the mechanism of how the continental ice moves, by gravity, ever so slowly at the edges to the sea - sliding on the “liquid ice” underneath as the depth grows in the interior.

[Impala64ssa]

Well if ice kept building at the Antarctica it would make the Earth so heavy down there it would fall out of space ,D’oh
Heck, maybe Rep HankJohnson was on to something(besides being ON something) when he remarked that too many troops on Guam would cause it to capsize, the same thing would happen with too much ice buildup but on a more catastrophic scale. Seriously, Admiral Robert F. Willard should've been given the Congressional Medal of Honor for maintaining his composure and keeping a straight face during that farce of a hearing

[TigersEye]

Just starting to understand
Don’t know
Can’t tell
Complex systems

Those are the kind of phrases you hear when "the science is settled." /s lol

Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance (yep, it's growing)

[Eccl 10:2]

The water will collect on one side and Antarctica will tip over.

[Red Badger]

There are ancient Roman era ports under water now that were above water 2000 years ago. The world did not notice as they slowly sank beneath the waves over a few centuries. They didn’t cry and wail and run about screaming that the world was about to end. They just moved...............

[Yo-Yo]

Newsflash: Water stays just as frozen at -10°F as it does at -20°F, so warming air temperatures in the Antarctic does not contribute to ice melting.

However, geothermal activity does.

[Red Badger]

No, it would just tip over...................

[Del Rapier]

Yep,the end of the world....too much water.