Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

[Toddsterpatriot]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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How many windmills should we build to bring it back?
Do they have to produce useful amounts of power?
Or can we save ourselves simply by building them?

Or rather: how many White Privileged People should we burn at the stake to appease the Climate Gods?

The biggest reduction in CO2 we could make is to boot 10 million illegals.

 

[harmonica]

I don't care--I don't live near the coast

 

[sparky]

follow the $$$

~S~

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

follow the $$$

~S~

Money from companies that produce the commodities that make our modern economy possible?

BASTARDS!!!

 

[sparky]

Money from companies that produce the commodities that make our modern economy possible?

BASTARDS!!!

Ever appearing in their shiny white hats ,thanks to their congressionally bought sponsors!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Money from companies that produce the commodities that make our modern economy possible?

BASTARDS!!!

Ever appearing in their shiny white hats ,thanks to their congressionally bought sponsors!

The only money allowed should be from Russians and their uranium partners, eh comrade?

 

[SSDD]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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Wow..the Antarctic lost 3 trillion tons of ice in a quarter of a century and that worries you? Get some perspective guy...the Arctic has gained 2 trillion tons of ice since 2016.

 

[westwall]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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Which is the equivalent of you losing a fingernail. Good grief, the hyperbole you clowns refer to is astonishing.

 

[SSDD]

Still waiting

Who cares what you are waiting on? Nobody.

People who have been duped by the man made climate change scam who have even a small bit of critical thinking skills should care that I have been waiting, and asking for a single piece of observed, measured evidence that supports the mann made climate change hypothesis over natural variability for more than two decades without ever seeing even one piece of such evidence.

Now your garden variety dupe, who possesses no critical thinking skills at all wouldn't care, but then what the hell difference do garden variety dupes make anyway. They never have any real contribution, and never present any actual evidence to any discussion...snide one liners, and excuses are about the best they can muster.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Still waiting

Who cares what you are waiting on? Nobody.

lets see if the moron knows the context of the ice loss. Now tell me what percentage of the antarctic ice cap is missing? I know how insignificant it is and how small it is..

 

[Billy_Bob]

Good News! 99.989% of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Didn’t Melt!

"The total mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is about 27,601,654 BILLION metric tons… 27,602 TRILLION metric tons… 3 is 0.011% of 27,602. Zero-point-zero-one-one percent is indistinguishable from Mr. Blutarski’s grade point average…"

bwhaaaaaaaaa

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Antartica used to be ice free. There are old maps of what it looked like.

 

[flacaltenn]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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Since the footing for those ice shelves are about 500ft or more below water -- it's hardly raising the ocean levels. And I don't know if you're aware of this science fact, but the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) sits largely a series of VERY HOT volcanic rifts. True story. You think maybe a degree MIGHT be from heating at the footers?

Good news is ---- nobody gonna die because a deep ice shelf calved..

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye
Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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Wait, so you're saying we should kill off several billion people....to save the planet?
How cruel are YOU?!?

 

[flacaltenn]

We know the earth goes thru heating and cooling cycles but it isn't man made

We know this because the same scientists who are raising the alarm about global warming discovered all of that and taught it to us.

also know that the sun is hot as hell. (Something global warming nuts have never considered)

The scientist who taught us that never considered that? What an odd thing to say...

Are you high, son?

Alarm? Do you hear the SAME ALARM that was going off daily 20 years ago or more? No -- you don't. Because the future was greatly embellished and exaggerated. I can assure you -- you're not gonna die from 180ppm of CO2...

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Alarm? Do you hear the SAME ALARM that was going off daily 20 years ago or more? No -- you don't. Because the future was greatly embellished and exaggerated. I can assure you -- you're not gonna die from 180ppm of CO2...

No. but PLANTS sure are lovin it !!!

 

[flacaltenn]

We are WAAAAY the fuck past the point of blaming GW for EVERY enviro issue. When you look at the actual IMMENSELY COLD air and water temps down there with NO REAL increase for DECADES -- there's got to GOOD ALTERNATE explanations for calving Ice shelf.

One would be -- they really have not been STUDIED in depth for very long. But an even BETTER alternate explanation goes like this..

Giant volcanoes lurk beneath Antarctic ice

Lurking beneath Antarctica’s ice are 91 volcanoes that until now no one knew existed. This may be one of the most extensive volcanic regions on Earth. The discovery isn’t, however, just a fun factoid about the planet’s southernmost continent. It’s got scientists wondering just how active these volcanoes are. For instance, their volcanic heat might speed the shrinking of Antarctica’s already endangered ice.

Max Van Wyk de Vries is an undergraduate geology student at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He was curious about what Antarctica looked like under all its ice. He found data on the internet that described the underlying land. “I wasn’t really looking for anything in particular when I first started,” he recalls. “I was just interested in seeing what the land looked like under the ice.”

Explainer: The Volcano Basics
But then, he says, he started seeing familiar-looking cone shapes. Lots of them. Cone shapes, he knew, are typical of volcanoes. He looked more closely. Then he showed them to Andrew Hein and Robert Bingham. Both are geologists at his school.

Together, they confirmed what Van Wyk de Vries thought he saw. These were 91 new volcanoes hiding beneath ice as much as 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) thick.

Some peaks were large — up to 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) high and tens of kilometers (at least a dozen miles) across, says Van Wyk de Vries. “The fact that there was a large number of undiscovered volcanoes in Antarctica that had escaped attention was honestly surprising to all of us, especially given that many of them are huge,” he notes. Small bumps on the ice mark the site of some buried volcanoes, he says. No surface clues, however, reveal the existence of most of them.



We actually are way behind understanding the dynamics of the WAIS. And most of the papers STUDYING that issue ADMIT it's poorly known..

 

[toobfreak]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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God gave one hell of a party that year and we needed one shitload of ice-cubes.

 

[flacaltenn]

99 ACTIVE -- sub ice volcanoes and 2 Sub-Ice ERUPTING volcanoes. This is all a relatively NEW revelation actually..

 

[Muhammed]

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Antarctica lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice in blink of an eye

"We have long suspected that changes in Earth’s climate will affect the polar ice sheets. Thanks to the satellites our space agencies have launched, we can now track their ice losses and global sea level contribution with confidence,"....

West Antarctica is currently bearing the brunt of this loss, as its glacial ice shelves have been melted from below by warming deep ocean water. According to the study, the rate of loss in that part of the content has increased from 53 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s, up to the current rate of 159 billion tonnes per year. The Antarctic Peninsula - the portion of the continent that reaches out for the southern tip of South America - has seen an increase from an average of 7 billion tonnes per year, up to 33 billion tonnes per year in that same time period.

Of course, this means nothing to idiot global heating deniers.
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Typical warmist ignorance who doesn't even read the Abstract of the Nature paper.

To us actual climate scientists, Nature is not even considered to be a scientific journal.

You know that whole climategate scandal, when wikileaks published a bunch of leaked emails which proved beyond any shadow of doubt that Nature was publishing fraudulent climate science papers.

That whole deal that made worldwide headlines.

Because of the boycott from us real scientists, Nature has now changed their policies, and promised to be good from now on.

However, until they retract ALL of the fraudulent papers, AND all papers that built upon those fraudulent papers, and all of the papers that were built upon the papers that were built upon the fraudulent papers,etc. etc, etc..... Among actual experts such as myself, Nature will never be considered to be a reputable scientific journal again.