Posted on 01/14/2019 5:11:28 PM PST by 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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Just waiting for the update where the Climate Change frauds admit the they didn’t pass high school math and misplaced a decimal point which renders the entire study worthless.
Yes, I caught that little gem, too.
Notice how 1979-1989 a whole TEN years on an earth 4.5 billion years old is the standard. But amazingly, after a TWENTY year gap, lotsa ice is melting.
What happened between 1989 and 2009?
Was that the famous "algoreon minimum"?
That strange place between global cooling and warming.
A place we call the Twilight Ozone
Antarctica beach-front property!
buy early while still cheap
OMG, in 20 more years my house will be beach front property! I will be rich!!
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
According to Comiso Et Al., 2017, “Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Has Been Slowly Increasing Contrary To Expected Trends Due To Global Warming And Results From Coupled Climate Models.”
‘After A Record High Extent In 2012 The Extent Was Even Higher In 2014. … [T]He Trend In Sea Ice Cover Is Strongly Influenced By The Trend In Surface Temperature [Cooling].”
Somebody is lying
Then its Trump’s fault right?
and it gained how much ice over those years ,it goes but is replaced ,D’oh
Quick get them some Ice-gaine!
Juggling the #s doesn’t that mean the sea has
risen 7 millimeters in 9 years?
Where is it?
And the sad part is that ice lost from Antarctica will never be regained. No way, no how! Snowfall will not replenish it ever again, no matter how much snow falls. Its the end of everything. Its kind of like a wildfire sweeping through a forest that burns fiercely and kills all the vegetation. Nothing will ever grow there again. Forever and ever. Not even moss or simple plants. A pure desert from then on throughout eternity.
You know, Al Gore, there are volcanoes erupting underneath parts of the Antarctic ice sheet. You didn’t know that? You are such a dipstick.
These warmists are anti-science nitwits with fascist needs. What absolute liars and losers. They run from the truth and have no integrity .
Oddly during times of increased ice accumulation the rate of loss increases but accumulation is a net positive and not negative. The greater the amount of glacial ice on the continent the greater is the velocity of the glacial ice pack flowing out to sea.
Not to mention the winter temps.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth
was at Vostok, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica.
-89.2°C/-128.6F on 21st July 1983.
What’s also kind of interesting is that parts of Antarctica are deserts. No snow. It’s as if it is too cold to snow. A warmer planet is a wetter planet. A warmer planet should increase snowfall in the especially cold areas of the planet.
That was exactly my thought too. That data must not be available........
Two miles below the ice are tree trunks.
Tree trunks.
Clearly we are in a global cooling state currently...
I remember asking something like that of a co-worker of mine, who had a double-major in CompSci and Physics. He explained that ice is composed of H2O and captured air. When it melts, the frozen H2O returns to liquid state and the air is released back into the atmosphere. That's why ice takes up more volume than water.
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