Antarctic Melt

[Manonthestreet]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

 

[skookerasbil]

meh.....a tiny area is melting.


Nobody cares

 

[Manonthestreet]

and its not global warming induced.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

er, geothermal sources.....CAUSED BY MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The geothermal heat source is a denier

 

[IanC]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

 

[Crick]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

What we are staring blankly at are the tentacles radiating from the back of your head.

Vulcanism is a given background process. It has no bearing on whether or not AGW is taking place and unless things change dramatically, it has little bearing on total melt's effect on sea level rise or loss of albedo. If we simply go back to what we were doing it's because the point is obviously irrelevant and we either don't feel like wasting time or perhaps just don't want to embarrass you pointing out facts.

 

[SSDD]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

What we are staring blankly at are the tentacles radiating from the back of your head.

Vulcanism is a given background process. It has no bearing on whether or not AGW is taking place and unless things change dramatically, it has little bearing on total melt's effect on sea level rise or loss of albedo. If we simply go back to what we were doing it's because the point is obviously irrelevant and we either don't feel like wasting time or perhaps just don't want to embarrass you pointing out facts.

Right. Like that great big ball of fire in the sky has little bearing on the climate. You guys are the true deniers and history is not going to be kind to you.

 

[Crick]

History? You need to worry about real flesh and blood PEOPLE. They're likely to be a little miffed when, after decades of you oil afficionados telling then everything was going to be just fine, they find the ocean's lapping at their doors, millions of refugees are on the move and food and water are getting scarce. Stay away from the fellas with the ropes, if you know what I mean.

 

[SSDD]

History? You need to worry about real flesh and blood PEOPLE. They're likely to be a little miffed when, after decades of you oil afficionados telling then everything was going to be just fine, they find the ocean's lapping at their doors, millions of refugees are on the move and food and water are getting scarce. Stay away from the fellas with the ropes, if you know what I mean.

More handwaving. That, and projection are all you have. You and yours have been making those sorts of idiotic predictions for decades now and are batting 0. Failure on epic proportions and rather than temper your idiotic claims, you double down with even more hysteria. How stupid are you exactly?

 

[Crick]

What I have is the conclusion of virtually every single scientific study on the topic.

How do you so easily forget that it's YOU that's the whackjob here.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

What we are staring blankly at are the tentacles radiating from the back of your head.

Vulcanism is a given background process. It has no bearing on whether or not AGW is taking place and unless things change dramatically, it has little bearing on total melt's effect on sea level rise or loss of albedo. If we simply go back to what we were doing it's because the point is obviously irrelevant and we either don't feel like wasting time or perhaps just don't want to embarrass you pointing out facts.

Yes, geothermal melt caused by AGW.

We got it

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What I have is the conclusion of virtually every single scientific study on the topic.

How do you so easily forget that it's YOU that's the whackjob here.

AGWCult: AGW is melting the Ice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Real Scientists: Geothermal heat is melting the ice

AGWCult: Denier! AGW Causes geothermal heat and is melting the Ice!

 

[skookerasbil]

and its not global warming induced.

Everything is global warming induced to the AGW fascist k00ks. Earthquakes......tsunamis......forest fires......you name it.

 

[skookerasbil]

What I have is the conclusion of virtually every single scientific study on the topic.

How do you so easily forget that it's YOU that's the whackjob here.

Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority Of Scientists Skeptical Of Global Warming Crisis - Forbes



Oooooooooooooooops!!!!

 

[IanC]

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

AUSTIN, Texas — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it's being melted from below by geothermal heat, researchers at the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin (UTIG) report in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

What we are staring blankly at are the tentacles radiating from the back of your head.

Vulcanism is a given background process. It has no bearing on whether or not AGW is taking place and unless things change dramatically, it has little bearing on total melt's effect on sea level rise or loss of albedo. If we simply go back to what we were doing it's because the point is obviously irrelevant and we either don't feel like wasting time or perhaps just don't want to embarrass you pointing out facts.

hahahahahaha.

it is funny how some correlation equals causation but other correlations dont equal causation. CO2 and its tiny addition to post LIA warming is to blame for.....well, just about everything. but finding that all the warming happening in Antarctica is right on top of a chain of active volcanoes is just a fluke.

nope, nothing to see here folks. move along. hahahaha

 

[IanC]

What I have is the conclusion of virtually every single scientific study on the topic.

How do you so easily forget that it's YOU that's the whackjob here.

Peer-Reviewed Survey Finds Majority Of Scientists Skeptical Of Global Warming Crisis - Forbes



Oooooooooooooooops!!!!

OH DEAR!!!!!!! you realize that the survey Forbes is quoting is by none other than an author on (gasp) Crickham's List of 97%ers! he didnt respond to me but maybe he will discuss it with you.

 

[polarbear]

What I have is the conclusion of virtually every single scientific study on the topic.

How do you so easily forget that it's YOU that's the whackjob here.

What you have is virtually all the crap the cartoonist Cook publishes on his "skepticalscience" blog.
If you had "virtually every single scientific study on the topic" then you would realize how seriously out of whack you are:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7502/full/nature13262.html

Storm-induced sea-ice breakup and the implications for ice extent

The propagation of large, storm-generated waves through sea ice has so far not been measured, limiting our understanding of how ocean waves break sea ice. Without improved knowledge of ice breakup, we are unable to understand recent changes, or predict future changes, in Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. Here we show that storm-generated ocean waves propagating through Antarctic sea ice are able to transport enough energy to break sea ice hundreds of kilometres from the ice edge. Our results, which are based on concurrent observations at multiple locations, establish that large waves break sea ice much farther from the ice edge than would be predicted by the commonly assumed exponential decay


This implies a more prominent role for large ocean waves in sea-ice breakup and retreat than previously thought. We examine the wider relevance of this by comparing observed Antarctic sea-ice edge positions with changes in modelled significant wave heights for the Southern Ocean between 1997 and 2009, and find that the retreat and expansion of the sea-ice edge correlate with mean significant wave height increases and decreases, respectively. This includes capturing the spatial variability in sea-ice trends found in the Ross and Amundsen–Bellingshausen seas. Climate models fail to capture recent changes in sea ice in both polar regions4, 5. Our results suggest that the incorporation of explicit or parameterized interactions between ocean waves and sea ice may resolve this problem.

And before you start gibbering that CO2 increases ocean wave height another scientific study carried out by the German Polarstern expedition found that there was a record glacial ice reduction 14 600 years ago when CO2 levels and temperatures were way below what they are now.
Anstieg des Meeresspiegels nach Eiszeit durch Gletscher in Antarktis - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Vor 19.000 bis vor 9000 Jahren entließen Gletscher in acht Phasen ungewöhnlich viele große Eisberge. Das Maximum fiel in die Zeit vor 14.600 Jahren

You don`t understand any German but claim you "have virtually every scientific study"?

I posted that one over a month ago and the other guys who say that you are full of crap read the translation and every one of them would know without me translating that "14600 Jahre" = 14600 years ...all you did was spamming it with several pages of personal attacks and insults aimed at SSDD etc in order to bury it as fast as possible.

Feel free to use the same cop-out which your buddy mamooth uses every time Der Spiegel publishes new findings in their science section...he calls "Der Spiegel" a tabloid and denies everything they publish.
Der Spiegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million

Der Spiegel is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism.

As of 2010, Der Spiegel was employing the equivalent of 80 full-time fact checkers, which the Columbia Journalism Review called "most likely the world's largest fact checking operation".[8]

But neither your buddies nor you would bother with fact checking and dismiss it as fact-"denial" leaving you as dumb and ignorant of the facts as MSNBC etc etc would like to keep you.
Btw. Der Spiegel was not the only news outlet which published the "Polarstern" findings, they were just a lot quicker in doing so

 

[mamooth]

Ive mentioned seismic and volcanic activity before to the CAGW loons. they stare blankly for a moment and then simply go back to their chatter.

No, we point out how lame your unsupported claims are.

Do you have any evidence that geothermal activity has increased? No, you don't. Hence, you are obviously attempting to deflect from the actual cause of changes, the human-caused warming.

Back in the real world, geothermal factors have always been taken into account for Antarctic melt. Anyone denying that is either ignorant of the science or lying by omission. What that latest study said was that the geothermal factor in that particular area is found to be larger than previously estimated. It does _not_ say that it's grown bigger. Geothermal factors are the same as they always were. It's the increasing ocean temps that are changing the equilibrium.

 

[mamooth]

What you have is virtually all the crap the cartoonist Cook publishes on his "skepticalscience" blog.

Results replicated in several other independent studies, hence your attempts to demonize a a person and website are an obvious lame deflection.

The propagation of large, storm-generated waves through sea ice has

... has absolutely no relation to this thread topic, so the rest of your post is more meaningless handwaving. The topic is land ice, not sea ice or ice shelves.