It’s just doing what ice shelves have always done. Water, even frozen water, flows down hill until it reaches the sea.
[ It’s just doing what ice shelves have always done. Water, even frozen water, flows down hill until it reaches the sea. ]
the fact that it is flowing means there is more ice being added further “upstream”...
OH NOES!!!! All the ice is melting!!!!
It is like saying because the river is flooding near the ocean that there is a drought upstream.....
OH NOES!!!! All the ice is melting!!!!
So if there was no ice berg calvi8ng off the shelf and the shelf itself recedes back into the Continental plain, THEN the ice is melting FASTER than it is being replaced “upstream”... But like any other river system there are YEARLY variations!