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The only words in quotes are "climate deniers" all the other words do not come from Nye's mouth.well son, I just did. are you blind?BowTucker made up the "quote" he pretended to read. Please link to the exact words pathological liar BowTucker quoted coming out of Nye's mouth.well he did say and Tucker was reading his statements from the past.He said that is not what HE said. If you recall it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said that.can you scribe Nye's answer to why he felt skeptics should be locked up? seems he skated off on that one. you heard him say something?what was it then?He answered over and over, but when it wasn't the answer BowTucker was fishing for he rudely interrupted.
here is the link:
Bill Nye says that we should throw "climate deniers" in jail. | RedState
Proving BowTucker is a LIAR!it's what carlson read. sorry. Nye said he never said it. derpAnd none of those quotes match the "quote" out of BowTucker's mouth.well is his quote:He didn't say it, it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said it, so Nye was correct and BowTucker was dead wrong as usual.what's funny is Nye stated he never made that statement. Too funnycan you scribe Nye's answer to why he felt skeptics should be locked up? seems he skated off on that one. you heard him say something?what was it then?
"YouTube channel, cfact, sat down with Nye and at some point Marc Morano asked the celebrity in a lab coat if the idea being passed around by climate change activists to throw skeptics in jail isn’t too extreme.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” responded Nye. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”"
Dude there is but one conclusion to draw from those responses. and jailing deniers is that conclusion. And is what Carlson was quoting.
I will remind you that NO cigarette execs were jailed!!!
so you're calling the quote an error?The only words in quotes are "climate deniers" all the other words do not come from Nye's mouth.well son, I just did. are you blind?BowTucker made up the "quote" he pretended to read. Please link to the exact words pathological liar BowTucker quoted coming out of Nye's mouth.well he did say and Tucker was reading his statements from the past.He said that is not what HE said. If you recall it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said that.can you scribe Nye's answer to why he felt skeptics should be locked up? seems he skated off on that one. you heard him say something?what was it then?
here is the link:
Bill Nye says that we should throw "climate deniers" in jail. | RedState
Try again.
Proving BowTucker is a LIAR!it's what carlson read. sorry. Nye said he never said it. derpAnd none of those quotes match the "quote" out of BowTucker's mouth.well is his quote:He didn't say it, it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said it, so Nye was correct and BowTucker was dead wrong as usual.what's funny is Nye stated he never made that statement. Too funny
"YouTube channel, cfact, sat down with Nye and at some point Marc Morano asked the celebrity in a lab coat if the idea being passed around by climate change activists to throw skeptics in jail isn’t too extreme.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” responded Nye. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”"
Dude there is but one conclusion to draw from those responses. and jailing deniers is that conclusion. And is what Carlson was quoting.
I will remind you that NO cigarette execs were jailed!!!
The only words in quotes are "climate deniers" all the other words do not come from Nye's mouth.well son, I just did. are you blind?BowTucker made up the "quote" he pretended to read. Please link to the exact words pathological liar BowTucker quoted coming out of Nye's mouth.well he did say and Tucker was reading his statements from the past.He said that is not what HE said. If you recall it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said that.
here is the link:
Bill Nye says that we should throw "climate deniers" in jail. | RedState
Try again.
Proving BowTucker is a LIAR!it's what carlson read. sorry. Nye said he never said it. derpAnd none of those quotes match the "quote" out of BowTucker's mouth.well is his quote:He didn't say it, it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said it, so Nye was correct and BowTucker was dead wrong as usual.
"YouTube channel, cfact, sat down with Nye and at some point Marc Morano asked the celebrity in a lab coat if the idea being passed around by climate change activists to throw skeptics in jail isn’t too extreme.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” responded Nye. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”"
Dude there is but one conclusion to draw from those responses. and jailing deniers is that conclusion. And is what Carlson was quoting.
I will remind you that NO cigarette execs were jailed!!!
Nope! We're calling you a delusional retard for continuing to twist and distort the facts to serve your ideological obsessions, JustCrazy.so you're calling the quote an error?
I'm calling BowTucker's quote a lie he made up and put in Nye's mouth, which is why you can't show a Nye quote with the exact words BowTucker pretended to read in the video.so you're calling the quote an error?The only words in quotes are "climate deniers" all the other words do not come from Nye's mouth.well son, I just did. are you blind?BowTucker made up the "quote" he pretended to read. Please link to the exact words pathological liar BowTucker quoted coming out of Nye's mouth.well he did say and Tucker was reading his statements from the past.He said that is not what HE said. If you recall it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said that.
here is the link:
Bill Nye says that we should throw "climate deniers" in jail. | RedState
Try again.
Proving BowTucker is a LIAR!it's what carlson read. sorry. Nye said he never said it. derpAnd none of those quotes match the "quote" out of BowTucker's mouth.well is his quote:He didn't say it, it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said it, so Nye was correct and BowTucker was dead wrong as usual.
"YouTube channel, cfact, sat down with Nye and at some point Marc Morano asked the celebrity in a lab coat if the idea being passed around by climate change activists to throw skeptics in jail isn’t too extreme.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” responded Nye. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”"
Dude there is but one conclusion to draw from those responses. and jailing deniers is that conclusion. And is what Carlson was quoting.
I will remind you that NO cigarette execs were jailed!!!
did i present the link with the quote? what is it I'm delusional about? rolling tundraThe only words in quotes are "climate deniers" all the other words do not come from Nye's mouth.well son, I just did. are you blind?BowTucker made up the "quote" he pretended to read. Please link to the exact words pathological liar BowTucker quoted coming out of Nye's mouth.well he did say and Tucker was reading his statements from the past.He said that is not what HE said. If you recall it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said that.
here is the link:
Bill Nye says that we should throw "climate deniers" in jail. | RedState
Try again.
Proving BowTucker is a LIAR!it's what carlson read. sorry. Nye said he never said it. derpAnd none of those quotes match the "quote" out of BowTucker's mouth.well is his quote:He didn't say it, it was Robert Kennedy Jr who said it, so Nye was correct and BowTucker was dead wrong as usual.
"YouTube channel, cfact, sat down with Nye and at some point Marc Morano asked the celebrity in a lab coat if the idea being passed around by climate change activists to throw skeptics in jail isn’t too extreme.
“We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron?” responded Nye. “Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”"
Dude there is but one conclusion to draw from those responses. and jailing deniers is that conclusion. And is what Carlson was quoting.
I will remind you that NO cigarette execs were jailed!!!Nope! We're calling you a delusional retard for continuing to twist and distort the facts to serve your ideological obsessions, JustCrazy.so you're calling the quote an error?
The video refutes what you say.Lol, you can't refute a thing I said. Got it.MJust like BowTucker, repeating your BS will not make it any less BS.Wow, perceptions surely are different. He never answered the question, even one time answering a question with a question. Unless you believe he was serious that global climate change is 100% man made...Everything Brent Bozo's MRC touches is fake. And I saw the video, Nye answered BowTucker's question repeatedly in spite of his rude talking over him.Guess you missed the video. Newsbusters did not make a fake video.
We are in an interglacial period. The estimates are, we are about 1,800 years from the halfway point of a Milankovitch cycle. Our ice volumes are relatively stable, we lose and gain ice each year at the two poles. Overall, we have been running a slight deficit... we're losing a little more than we're gaining...
Yeah, you're not listening. We're losing ice at an accelerating pace while...
"There is no detectable "natural" forcing [Milankovitch or otherwise] that accounts for the current warming trend, and the loss of ice volume, retreating glaciers, etc."
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
We are in an interglacial period. The estimates are, we are about 1,800 years from the halfway point of a Milankovitch cycle. Our ice volumes are relatively stable, we lose and gain ice each year at the two poles. Overall, we have been running a slight deficit... we're losing a little more than we're gaining...
Yeah, you're not listening. We're losing ice at an accelerating pace while...
"There is no detectable "natural" forcing [Milankovitch or otherwise] that accounts for the current warming trend, and the loss of ice volume, retreating glaciers, etc."
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice. Cumulatively, we're losing a little ice but... we're in an interglacial period and that's what ice does.
There is a problem with the "current warming trend" ...they call it The Pause. The Warmers try to explain this embarrassing phenomenon by completely reworking how we measure global temperatures.
But again.... we are in an interglacial period.. it is expected that temperatures are going to rise unless we're heading into another glaciation period, which by estimates is at least another millennium away.
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
You know nothing:
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses
19 May 2014
Three years of observations from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
The polar ice sheets are a major contributor to the rise in global sea levels, and these newly measured losses from Antarctica alone are enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm each year.
These latest findings by a team of scientists from the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling show that the pattern of imbalance continues to be dominated by glaciers thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.
[...]
Ice loss and sea level rise
Cumulative changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (pink) and the Greenland ice sheet (blue) from 1992 to 2011 determined from a reconciliation of measurements acquired by satellite radar altimetry, the input-output method, satellite gravimetry and satellite laser altimetry. Also shown is the equivalent global sea level contribution, calculated assuming that 360 gigatonnes of ice corresponds to 1 mm of sea level rise.
End of.
From 2000-2014 it was growing.
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
You know nothing:
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses
19 May 2014
Three years of observations from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
The polar ice sheets are a major contributor to the rise in global sea levels, and these newly measured losses from Antarctica alone are enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm each year.
These latest findings by a team of scientists from the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling show that the pattern of imbalance continues to be dominated by glaciers thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.
Ice loss and sea level rise
Cumulative changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (pink) and the Greenland ice sheet (blue) from 1992 to 2011 determined from a reconciliation of measurements acquired by satellite radar altimetry, the input-output method, satellite gravimetry and satellite laser altimetry. Also shown is the equivalent global sea level contribution, calculated assuming that 360 gigatonnes of ice corresponds to 1 mm of sea level rise.
End of.
"It" what, moron? Antarctica? WRONG! As usual.From 2000-2014 it was growing.
The ice shelves ARE NOT GROWING, you poor delusional retard.But just like all your alarmist claims, you ignore it when the ice shelves are growing...
Yeah, by a negative 159 billion tonnes of ice each year.
There goes another know-nothing denialist troll.
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
You know nothing:
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses
19 May 2014
Three years of observations from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
The polar ice sheets are a major contributor to the rise in global sea levels, and these newly measured losses from Antarctica alone are enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm each year.
These latest findings by a team of scientists from the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling show that the pattern of imbalance continues to be dominated by glaciers thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.
Ice loss and sea level rise
Cumulative changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (pink) and the Greenland ice sheet (blue) from 1992 to 2011 determined from a reconciliation of measurements acquired by satellite radar altimetry, the input-output method, satellite gravimetry and satellite laser altimetry. Also shown is the equivalent global sea level contribution, calculated assuming that 360 gigatonnes of ice corresponds to 1 mm of sea level rise.
End of.
"It" what, moron? Antarctica? WRONG! As usual.From 2000-2014 it was growing.
The ice shelves ARE NOT GROWING, you poor delusional retard.But just like all your alarmist claims, you ignore it when the ice shelves are growing...
In the real world....
West Antarctic ice shelf breaking up from the inside out | News - The Ohio State University
Nov 28, 2016
Antarctica Ice Shelf Is Breaking from the Inside Out - Scientific American
Nov 29, 2016
NASA Study Shows Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act | NASA
The crack in an Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent. - Chicago Tribune
Jan 7, 2017
As Antarctic ice shelves shrink, 'shelfwatchers' await major break-off - CSMonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor
Feb 9, 2017
Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses - Latest Stories - National Geographic
2016/04
Quick Facts on Ice Shelves
National Snow and Ice Data Center
What is an ice shelf?
Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass.
Most of the world's ice shelves hug the coast of Antarctica. However, ice shelves can also form wherever ice flows from land into cold ocean waters, including some glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. The northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island is home to several well-known ice shelves, among them the Markham and the Ward Hunt ice shelves.
How do ice shelves form?
Ice from enormous ice sheets slowly oozes into the sea through glaciers and ice streams. If the ocean is cold enough, that newly arrived ice doesn't melt right away. Instead it may float on the surface and grow larger as glacial ice behind it continues to flow into the sea. Along protected coastlines, the resulting ice shelves can survive for thousands of years, bolstered by the rock of peninsulas and islands. Ice shelves grow when they gain ice from land, and occasionally shrink when icebergs calve off their edges. This give and take helps them maintain a dynamic stability.
Why are ice shelves important?
Because ice shelves already float in the ocean, they do not contribute directly to sea level rise when they break up. However, ice shelf collapse could contribute to sea level rise indirectly. Ice streams and glaciers constantly push on ice shelves, but the shelves eventually come up against coastal features such as islands and peninsulas, building pressure that slows their movement into the ocean. If an ice shelf collapses, the backpressure disappears. The glaciers that fed into the ice shelf speed up, flowing more quickly out to sea. Glaciers and ice sheets rest on land, so once they flow into the ocean, they contribute to sea level rise.
The Ross Ice Shelf, at the Bay of Whales, is the southern-most navigable point on Earth. Credit: Michael Van Woert, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) NESDIS, ORA
Research suggests that glaciers behind ice shelves may accelerate by as much as five times following a rapid ice shelf retreat. To read about a recent study on such glacial acceleration, see the 2004 news release, Antarctic Glaciers Accelerate in Wake of Ice Shelf Breakup.
What's happening to ice shelves?
In the last thirty years, scientists have observed a series of unusual ice shelf collapses on the Antarctic Peninsula. Although it is not unusual for ice shelves to calve large icebergs, that process normally takes months to years, as cracks slowly form in the ice. Following a calving, ice shelves generally recover over a period of decades.
In recent years, ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula and along the northern coast of Canada have experienced rapid disintegration. In March 2008, the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica retreated by more than 400 square kilometers (160 square miles). Later that summer, several ice shelves along Ellesmere Island in Northern Canada broke up in a matter of days.
In contrast, the collapses in previous years happened over a period of weeks, leaving a soup of chunky ice and small icebergs. The remaining ice shelves retreated by as much as 90 percent, and several have experienced repeated collapses. For more information on recent collapses, see Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup Events and Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events. To learn more about the current state of ice shelves, see State of the Cryosphere: Ice Shelves.
This satellite image shows floating chunks of ice from the 2008 Wilkins Ice Shelf collapse. Credit: Cheng-Chien Liu, National Cheng-Kung University, and Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Space Organization, Taiwan
What causes an ice shelf to collapse?
Scientists think that the recent ice shelf collapses in both the Arctic and Antarctica are related to climate change. Most of the rapidly retreating ice shelves in Antarctica are located on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic Peninsula juts north towards South America, into warmer waters. The peninsula has warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1950, making it one of the fastest-warming places on Earth.
Scientists attributed rapid ice shelf collapse to warmer air and water temperatures, as well as increased melt on the ice shelf surface. Retreating sea ice may also play a role.
Warm air melts the ice shelf surface, forming ponds of meltwater. As the water trickles down through small cracks in the ice shelf, it deepens, erodes, and expands those cracks. In a separate process, warmer water melts the ice shelf from below, thinning it and making it more vulnerable to cracking. Scientists have observed both processes in all the ice shelves that have rapidly retreated in recent years.
However, warm temperatures alone do not fully explain rapid ice shelf collapse. Recent research suggests that waning sea ice surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula and the Arctic ice shelves in Canada might also have contributed to the recent collapses. Sea ice provides a layer of protection between an ice shelf and the surrounding ocean, muting the power of large waves and storms. As sea ice decreases, more waves buffet the ice shelves. The largest waves can buckle and bend an ice shelf, increasing instability and possibly contributing to a collapse.
The Larsen Ice Shelf, on the Antarctic Peninsula, has experienced an unprecedented series of collapses. Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
To learn more about research on ice shelf breakup, see the IceTrek project Web site.
How can I learn more?
NSIDC Resources
State of the Cryosphere: Ice Shelves. Find more in-depth information about ice shelves.
Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events. Browse news releases and images related to breakups on the Larsen Ice Shelf.
Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup Events. Read news releases and find images related to breakups on the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
You know nothing:
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses
19 May 2014
Three years of observations from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
The polar ice sheets are a major contributor to the rise in global sea levels, and these newly measured losses from Antarctica alone are enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm each year.
These latest findings by a team of scientists from the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling show that the pattern of imbalance continues to be dominated by glaciers thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.
Ice loss and sea level rise
Cumulative changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (pink) and the Greenland ice sheet (blue) from 1992 to 2011 determined from a reconciliation of measurements acquired by satellite radar altimetry, the input-output method, satellite gravimetry and satellite laser altimetry. Also shown is the equivalent global sea level contribution, calculated assuming that 360 gigatonnes of ice corresponds to 1 mm of sea level rise.
End of.
"It" what, moron? Antarctica? WRONG! As usual.From 2000-2014 it was growing.
The ice shelves ARE NOT GROWING, you poor delusional retard.But just like all your alarmist claims, you ignore it when the ice shelves are growing...
In the real world....
West Antarctic ice shelf breaking up from the inside out | News - The Ohio State University
Nov 28, 2016
Antarctica Ice Shelf Is Breaking from the Inside Out - Scientific American
Nov 29, 2016
NASA Study Shows Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf Nearing Its Final Act | NASA
The crack in an Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent. - Chicago Tribune
Jan 7, 2017
As Antarctic ice shelves shrink, 'shelfwatchers' await major break-off - CSMonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor
Feb 9, 2017
Scientists Are Watching in Horror as Ice Collapses - Latest Stories - National Geographic
2016/04
Quick Facts on Ice Shelves
National Snow and Ice Data Center
What is an ice shelf?
Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass.
Most of the world's ice shelves hug the coast of Antarctica. However, ice shelves can also form wherever ice flows from land into cold ocean waters, including some glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. The northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island is home to several well-known ice shelves, among them the Markham and the Ward Hunt ice shelves.
How do ice shelves form?
Ice from enormous ice sheets slowly oozes into the sea through glaciers and ice streams. If the ocean is cold enough, that newly arrived ice doesn't melt right away. Instead it may float on the surface and grow larger as glacial ice behind it continues to flow into the sea. Along protected coastlines, the resulting ice shelves can survive for thousands of years, bolstered by the rock of peninsulas and islands. Ice shelves grow when they gain ice from land, and occasionally shrink when icebergs calve off their edges. This give and take helps them maintain a dynamic stability.
Why are ice shelves important?
Because ice shelves already float in the ocean, they do not contribute directly to sea level rise when they break up. However, ice shelf collapse could contribute to sea level rise indirectly. Ice streams and glaciers constantly push on ice shelves, but the shelves eventually come up against coastal features such as islands and peninsulas, building pressure that slows their movement into the ocean. If an ice shelf collapses, the backpressure disappears. The glaciers that fed into the ice shelf speed up, flowing more quickly out to sea. Glaciers and ice sheets rest on land, so once they flow into the ocean, they contribute to sea level rise.
The Ross Ice Shelf, at the Bay of Whales, is the southern-most navigable point on Earth. Credit: Michael Van Woert, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) NESDIS, ORA
Research suggests that glaciers behind ice shelves may accelerate by as much as five times following a rapid ice shelf retreat. To read about a recent study on such glacial acceleration, see the 2004 news release, Antarctic Glaciers Accelerate in Wake of Ice Shelf Breakup.
What's happening to ice shelves?
In the last thirty years, scientists have observed a series of unusual ice shelf collapses on the Antarctic Peninsula. Although it is not unusual for ice shelves to calve large icebergs, that process normally takes months to years, as cracks slowly form in the ice. Following a calving, ice shelves generally recover over a period of decades.
In recent years, ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula and along the northern coast of Canada have experienced rapid disintegration. In March 2008, the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica retreated by more than 400 square kilometers (160 square miles). Later that summer, several ice shelves along Ellesmere Island in Northern Canada broke up in a matter of days.
In contrast, the collapses in previous years happened over a period of weeks, leaving a soup of chunky ice and small icebergs. The remaining ice shelves retreated by as much as 90 percent, and several have experienced repeated collapses. For more information on recent collapses, see Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup Events and Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events. To learn more about the current state of ice shelves, see State of the Cryosphere: Ice Shelves.
This satellite image shows floating chunks of ice from the 2008 Wilkins Ice Shelf collapse. Credit: Cheng-Chien Liu, National Cheng-Kung University, and Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Space Organization, Taiwan
What causes an ice shelf to collapse?
Scientists think that the recent ice shelf collapses in both the Arctic and Antarctica are related to climate change. Most of the rapidly retreating ice shelves in Antarctica are located on the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic Peninsula juts north towards South America, into warmer waters. The peninsula has warmed 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1950, making it one of the fastest-warming places on Earth.
Scientists attributed rapid ice shelf collapse to warmer air and water temperatures, as well as increased melt on the ice shelf surface. Retreating sea ice may also play a role.
Warm air melts the ice shelf surface, forming ponds of meltwater. As the water trickles down through small cracks in the ice shelf, it deepens, erodes, and expands those cracks. In a separate process, warmer water melts the ice shelf from below, thinning it and making it more vulnerable to cracking. Scientists have observed both processes in all the ice shelves that have rapidly retreated in recent years.
However, warm temperatures alone do not fully explain rapid ice shelf collapse. Recent research suggests that waning sea ice surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula and the Arctic ice shelves in Canada might also have contributed to the recent collapses. Sea ice provides a layer of protection between an ice shelf and the surrounding ocean, muting the power of large waves and storms. As sea ice decreases, more waves buffet the ice shelves. The largest waves can buckle and bend an ice shelf, increasing instability and possibly contributing to a collapse.
The Larsen Ice Shelf, on the Antarctic Peninsula, has experienced an unprecedented series of collapses. Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
To learn more about research on ice shelf breakup, see the IceTrek project Web site.
How can I learn more?
NSIDC Resources
State of the Cryosphere: Ice Shelves. Find more in-depth information about ice shelves.
Larsen Ice Shelf Breakup Events. Browse news releases and images related to breakups on the Larsen Ice Shelf.
Wilkins Ice Shelf Breakup Events. Read news releases and find images related to breakups on the Wilkins Ice Shelf.
The Bullshiter's usual denier cult drivel and lies that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation the world is facing.Yeah, by a negative 159 billion tonnes of ice each year.
There goes another know-nothing denialist troll.
No... negative 159 billion tons ONE year. A cumulative gain over the last 20 years. You want to dismiss the previous years where we gained sea ice and focus like a laser on the most recent year where you show a loss and pretend that has been the norm every year. That's just plain dishonest but it's what you've all become known for in this debate.
You're just dishonest people pushing an agenda. No one really knows why... maybe you think it's cool to be a Warmer? Maybe you think that makes you trendy and hip? Maybe you rely on government grants and funding somehow? Maybe you believe you're virtuously saving the world? Maybe you're a Marxist-Socialist piece of shit who simply wants to punish capitalists any way you can and deceiving the public is a great way to go about that? I don't know your motivations, I really don't... but regardless, there's nothing man can do to remedy the problem you are presenting. Even IF you are 100% correct (which you're not), there is no plan or scheme in which you can accomplish what needs to be accomplished. It's ALL a ruse.
The Bullshiter's usual denier cult drivel and lies that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation the world is facing.
The world scientific community is almost unanimous in warning us that human activities have raised atmospheric levels of a powerful greenhouse gas, CO2, by about 45% so far, with levels still rising fast, which is causing abrupt, rapid global warming which is starting to cause climate changes that will be very catastrophic for human civilization and all life on this planet.
Those are the facts.
The ginned up cult of AGW denial, full of ignorant rightwingnut morons, has the agenda their puppetmasters in the fossil fuel industry gave them - deny reality, fraudulently dispute the scientific evidence, try to delay any efforts to reduce carbon emissions so that the oil and coal barrons and corporate exectives can continue to make hundreds of billions of dollars profit every year selling the stuff that is killing our only planet.....and, of course, lie, lie, lie!
The Bullshiter's usual denier cult drivel and lies that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation the world is facing.
The world scientific community is almost unanimous in warning us that human activities have raised atmospheric levels of a powerful greenhouse gas, CO2, by about 45% so far, with levels still rising fast, which is causing abrupt, rapid global warming which is starting to cause climate changes that will be very catastrophic for human civilization and all life on this planet.
Those are the facts.
The ginned up cult of AGW denial, full of ignorant rightwingnut morons, has the agenda their puppetmasters in the fossil fuel industry gave them - deny reality, fraudulently dispute the scientific evidence, try to delay any efforts to reduce carbon emissions so that the oil and coal barrons and corporate exectives can continue to make hundreds of billions of dollars profit every year selling the stuff that is killing our only planet.....and, of course, lie, lie, lie!
Nope! Sorry, little retard. You can't. Another one of your ignorant hallucinations, I'm afraid.Well I can certainly refute your claim that man is responsible for the 45% increase in CO2 over the last 150~200 years.
Nope again, dope. Just your ignorance showing again.This amount must dismiss ALL natural phenomenon regarding CO2. In other words, Mother Nature has stood on the sidelines since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, neither creating or processing ANY CO2. That's the ONLY way you can attribute this 45% increase to man.
Yeah, that's what you doing in every bullshit filled post you poop out onto this forum, all right....this flat out denial of actual science...
....dumbshit, but the very real scientific consensus on the reality and dangers of human caused global warming and its consequent climate changes IS a valid piece of evidence that only ignorant cretins would imagine amounts to an "argumentum ad populum". You are an extremely ignorant and misinformed scientific retard.you run to the safety of argumentum ad populum. Sorry....
We're not losing ice at an accelerating pace. That's a lie. At one pole we are losing ice, at the other poll we're gaining ice.
You know nothing:
CryoSat finds sharp increase in Antarctica’s ice losses
19 May 2014
Three years of observations from ESA’s CryoSat satellite show that the Antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year – twice as much as when it was last surveyed.
The polar ice sheets are a major contributor to the rise in global sea levels, and these newly measured losses from Antarctica alone are enough to raise global sea levels by 0.45 mm each year.
These latest findings by a team of scientists from the UK’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling show that the pattern of imbalance continues to be dominated by glaciers thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.
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Ice loss and sea level rise
Cumulative changes in the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet (pink) and the Greenland ice sheet (blue) from 1992 to 2011 determined from a reconciliation of measurements acquired by satellite radar altimetry, the input-output method, satellite gravimetry and satellite laser altimetry. Also shown is the equivalent global sea level contribution, calculated assuming that 360 gigatonnes of ice corresponds to 1 mm of sea level rise.
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The Bullshiter's usual denier cult drivel and lies that have nothing to do with the reality of the situation the world is facing.
The world scientific community is almost unanimous in warning us that human activities have raised atmospheric levels of a powerful greenhouse gas, CO2, by about 45% so far, with levels still rising fast, which is causing abrupt, rapid global warming which is starting to cause climate changes that will be very catastrophic for human civilization and all life on this planet.
Those are the facts.
The ginned up cult of AGW denial, full of ignorant rightwingnut morons, has the agenda their puppetmasters in the fossil fuel industry gave them - deny reality, fraudulently dispute the scientific evidence, try to delay any efforts to reduce carbon emissions so that the oil and coal barrons and corporate exectives can continue to make hundreds of billions of dollars profit every year selling the stuff that is killing our only planet.....and, of course, lie, lie, lie!
Nope! Sorry, little retard. You can't. Another one of your ignorant hallucinations, I'm afraid.Well I can certainly refute your claim that man is responsible for the 45% increase in CO2 over the last 150~200 years.
Nope again, dope. Just your ignorance showing again.This amount must dismiss ALL natural phenomenon regarding CO2. In other words, Mother Nature has stood on the sidelines since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, neither creating or processing ANY CO2. That's the ONLY way you can attribute this 45% increase to man.
Natural processes have kept CO2 levels fairly constant at 280ppm for most of the Holocene. Although nature produces massive CO2 emissions every year, they are balanced every year by natural CO2 absorption and sequestration, so that levels have remained fairly steady for thousands of years. It is mankind's burning of fosssil fuels....which releases millions of years of years of natural carbon sequestration into ancient plants in just a matter of decades.....that have raised atmospheric CO2 levels by 45% so far.....and that is not even considering the enormous amounts of the excess CO2 that has been absorbed into the oceans, causing global warming' evil twin, ocean acidification. Scientists have calculated how much fossil fuel has been burned every year and the numbers match up quite well with the amount of extra excess CO2 in the air. Isotope analysis of the carbon dioxide in the air has identified the amounts that came from those ancient plants. We know where the extra CO2 came from, you clueless fool.
Yeah, that's what you doing in every bullshit filled post you poop out onto this forum, all right....this flat out denial of actual science...
....dumbshit, but the very real scientific consensus on the reality and dangers of human caused global warming and its consequent climate changes IS a valid piece of evidence that only ignorant cretins would imagine amounts to an "argumentum ad populum". You are an extremely ignorant and misinformed scientific retard.you run to the safety of argumentum ad populum. Sorry....
