Posted on 11/05/2015 9:55:55 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Annual snow accumulation on West Antarctica’s coastal ice sheet increased dramatically during the 20th century, according to a new study published today (Wednesday 4 November) in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters. The last three decades saw more snow build up on the ice sheet than at any other time in the last 300 years.
The research gives scientists new insight into Antarctica’s ice sheet. Understanding how the ice sheet grows and shrinks over time enhances scientists’ understanding of the processes that impact global sea levels.
The new study used ice cores to estimate annual snow accumulation from 1712 to 2010 along the coastal West Antarctic. Until 1899, annual snow accumulation remained steady, averaging 33 and 40 centimeters (13 and 16 inches) water, or melted snow, each year at two locations.
Annual snow accumulation increased in the early 20th century, rising 30 percent between 1900 and 2010 and the researchers found that in the last 30 years of the study, the ice sheet gained nearly 5 meters (16 feet) more water than it did during the first 30 years of the studied time period. . .
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More ice is, of course, caused by global warming.
It was all those SUVs on the roads in the early 1900s that started this.
The climate hoaxers should have stuck with “An ice age is coming.” They would have a better chance of selling that with the data of the last forty years. Oops!
The hippies do not have a very good long game. It is all short term gratification for them. Eventually us Ice Agers will be right. We just have to hold back the laughter for now.
In the ‘70s they were the ice agers. We had all better hope we don’t get another glacial period but we probably will. Not a dang thing anyone will be able to do about it either.
I own land in Arizona, it might start to look pretty good when it gets that cold.
Yep, it could be the new grain belt. There should be loads more water coming out of the Rockies too.
They chose poorly.
They’re liberals. That’s what they do!
Scientist should quit thinking so much. They have already done enough damage to their reputations.
The warmer it gets, the colder it gets. I think that’s settled. There’s no controversy there.
And the NEXT time we try socialism, it will really, really, really, really, really, really work.
Really.
Pretzel logic
Somewhere Al Gore is in denial.
How does one determine what area is “west” and what area is “east” in the Antarctic?
The AGWists have already contemplated the sunspot data which was predicted way back in the 80s and at the appropriate time changed to “climate Change’ which will pivot further to Global Cooling without a hint of irony. Global Cooling will, of course, necessitate total government -read Democrat Party- control of everything and the enrichment of the communists.
The "Coming Ice Age" seemed to explain some popularly observable short term weather phenomena in the 60s and 70s and was exploited to become AGW during the last gasp of the then extant warming period.
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