[House Atreides]

The Antarctic lost 40 billion tons of melting ice to the ocean each year from 1979 to 1989.
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And how much NEW ICE was made elsewhere in Antarctica during this time.

[boop]

"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

[cpdiii]

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.

[Danut]

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