Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds

WP ^ | 1 14 2019 | Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis

[yesthatjallen]

Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace over the past four decades thanks to an influx of warm ocean water — a startling new finding that researchers say could mean sea levels are poised to rise more quickly than predicted in coming decades.

The Antarctic lost 40 billion tons of melting ice to the ocean each year from 1979 to 1989. That figure rose to 252 billion tons lost per year beginning in 2009, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That means the region is losing six times as much ice as it was four decades ago, an unprecedented pace in the era of modern measurements. (It takes about 360 billion tons of ice to produce one millimeter of global sea-level rise.)

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[Boardwalk]

That AOClike new ice needs to pay its dues and respect the old melting ice lol.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, it’s underwater volcanoes causing the warming waters. We’ve known this for ages.

[SpaceBar]

Time to buy snokels made of recycled bio-waste.

[Openurmind]

I don’t think you are too far off there. :)

[GreyFriar]

And other reports, based upon satellite observation has Antarctica gaining ice mass over the last decade. Joe Bastardi occasionally comments on this at Weatherbell.com

[Agatsu77]

And all this with the ice shelf and upland getting colder. I wonder how that works?

[Openurmind]

It’s a seniority thing. lol

[fruser1]

And how much ice did it gain between 1989 and 2009?

Besides, we’re still in an ice age, a minority state in geologic history. There shouldn’t be any ice at sea level.

[Combat_Liberalism]

Elect a Democrat congress and president in ‘20 and all these global worming troubles will pass like a summer breeze!

Actually, no. A Democrat congress and president will propagandize for funding to stop global warming until you turn blue in the face. Yammer yammer yammer......

[fireman15]

Another day, another piece of misleading nonsense from the Washington Post.

[Openurmind]

Yep... The arctic also.

https://www.iceagenow.info/both-arctic-antarctic-sea-ice-now-at-historic-high-levels/

[chiller]

The average high in summer there (McMurdo Station) is 31 degrees. Mean summer temp is 27....there can't be a whole lotta ice melting there.

Bunk

[vigilence]

My standard answer to global warming now is “I don’t believe you”.

[UCANSEE2]

Like the huge aqueduct in Death Valley, the land of ice is also probably the hottest spot on the planet. May we never cease to be amazed.

[UCANSEE2]

the ice is melting in my lemonade drink but the lemonade level is staying the same. what gives?

You're supposed to drink it, not stare at it.

[greeneyes]

Globull Warming stopped at least a decade ago. We are headed into a Grand Solar Minimum-it’s gonna be cold as a well digger’s behind.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Sextupled since the 1070s? What about since the beginning of time. Life did not begin in the 70s, even though the Climate Change hoax did. Back then it was global cooling.

[Professional]

In elementary school in the 70s i was told the polar ice cap was moving south 1 mile a day.

By the 9th grade I realized all this second coming of the ice age was crap.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

SEXtupled is a trigger word!!! Implies climate is raping us!!!

[Gay State Conservative]

What the Amazon Compost knows,but refuses to mention,is that NASA recently announced the discovery of several (can't recall how many) active volcanoes *under* the Antarctic ice shelf.It doesn't take a rocket scientist (or a climate “scientist”) to understand that these eruptions might play a role in the melting of ice.