In your face, Al Gore.
Bush’s fault!!! Obviously.
Summary of the article:
“
The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
was thought to have started 14,000 years ago.
...researchers examined two sediment cores
from the Scotia Sea between Antarctica and South America
that contained “iceberg-rafted debris”.
...Periods of rapid increases in iceberg-rafted debris
suggest that more icebergs were being released
by the Antarctic ice sheet.
...researchers discovered increased amounts of debris
during eight separate episodes beginning as early as
20,000 years ago, and continuing until 9,000 years ago.
...research also provides the first solid evidence
that the Antarctic ice sheet contributed to what is known as
meltwater pulse 1A - a period of very rapid sea level rise
that began some 14,500 years ago.
...During that time, the sea level on a global basis
rose about 50 feet in just 350 years.
...9,000 years ago, the episodic pulses of melting stopped.
...Perhaps the sheet ran out of ice.
“
That can't be right. I think its evidence that aliens did live on Earth 5,000 years ago and drove around in SUVs and had incandescent light bulbs. Its also evidence that the Republican Party is a lot older than we thought. Because those are the things that cause global warming and the melting of the ice sheets.
The agenda of the environmentalists is to BLAME MAN (or Bush) for the melting of the ice and for global climate change. (once called global cooling, then global warming, then global cooling, then global warming...and now plain ole global climate change). What they refuse to admit is that the SUN goes through cycles and has for billions of years. We are now into a Solar Maunder Minimum.(cooling)
I am a bit curious how a location with the average mean temperature of -70 degrees F and had the lowest recorded temp of -129 degrees F, can melt? The South Pole’s highest temp was -9 and only on the peninsula has it ever reached above freezing at +59 and that was just once.
On a serious note: what about plate activity? The Antarctic plate moves east against the South American plate. This activity creates earthquakes as well as volcanic activity. Could this be at least partially responsible for icebergs and ice melt?
ALL of today’s so-called studies are nothing more than political support statements for the left.
For that reason, I don’t believe anything that concerns so-called studies.
Science has turned into junk science or downright lies!
It must have been all those campfires the cavemen were starting that caused the melting of the Antarctic ice!
