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Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds
WP ^ | 1 14 2019 | Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis

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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KEYWORDS: antarctica; chatforum; climatechange; climatechangehoax; fakemedia; fakenews; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; propaganda; weather
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To: yesthatjallen

41 posted on 01/14/2019 6:02:27 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: yesthatjallen
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum

From 2014.

42 posted on 01/14/2019 6:04:34 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


43 posted on 01/14/2019 6:27:30 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: House Atreides
"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"

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

44 posted on 01/14/2019 6:31:47 PM PST by boop (You went to bed last night, and woke up stupid?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Antarctica beach-front property!

buy early while still cheap


45 posted on 01/14/2019 6:33:31 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: yesthatjallen

OMG, in 20 more years my house will be beach front property! I will be rich!!


46 posted on 01/14/2019 6:36:10 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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


47 posted on 01/14/2019 6:47:23 PM PST by redangus
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To: Sacajaweau

Then its Trump’s fault right?


48 posted on 01/14/2019 6:51:22 PM PST by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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To: yesthatjallen

and it gained how much ice over those years ,it goes but is replaced ,D’oh


49 posted on 01/14/2019 7:11:49 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen

Quick get them some Ice-gaine!


50 posted on 01/14/2019 7:15:18 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: yesthatjallen

Juggling the #s doesn’t that mean the sea has
risen 7 millimeters in 9 years?
Where is it?


51 posted on 01/14/2019 7:19:35 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: yesthatjallen
That figure rose to 252 billion tons lost per year beginning in 2009,

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.

52 posted on 01/14/2019 7:21:45 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


53 posted on 01/14/2019 7:43:11 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

These warmists are anti-science nitwits with fascist needs. What absolute liars and losers. They run from the truth and have no integrity .


54 posted on 01/14/2019 7:54:48 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: House Atreides
The Antarctic lost 40 billion tons of melting ice to the ocean each year from 1979 to 1989. ********************************************** And how much NEW ICE was made elsewhere in Antarctica during this time.

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.

55 posted on 01/14/2019 8:28:45 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: chiller

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.


56 posted on 01/14/2019 8:36:41 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Leaning Right

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.


57 posted on 01/15/2019 5:18:16 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: House Atreides

That was exactly my thought too. That data must not be available........


58 posted on 01/15/2019 5:47:21 AM PST by Danut
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To: yesthatjallen

Two miles below the ice are tree trunks.

Tree trunks.

Clearly we are in a global cooling state currently...


59 posted on 01/15/2019 5:51:58 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: beebuster2000
the ice is melting in my lemonade drink but the lemonade level is staying the same. what gives?

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.

60 posted on 01/15/2019 6:07:49 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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