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Ha ha ha. I replied to you elsewhere with a lovely NASA article explaining why the volcanoes under Antarctica and those that used to be under Greenland, are not responsible for the current melt rate. Even you pointed out that of the 47 volcanoes under PIG and Thwaites, only one is active. Those volcanoes have been there for millions of years. They are background noise.Ha ha ha, you didn't address anything from MY link which is run by a GEOLOGIST who is an active researcher in plate Climatology.
I'm curious why you think it funny to be measuring gravity.Meanwhile GRACE has been shown to be unreliable as it also claims ice loss in regions that never gets above 0 degrees F year around. It measures changes in GRAVITY in an active geological region!
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I'm also curious why you're excited by an article from 2009.Amazing Grace
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What is the temperature of the ocean water pressing against the outer edge of the ice sheet? And were you under the impression that glaciers require temperatures above 0C to flow?Then again 7 years later more GRACE problems show up,
Another Smoking Gun That GRACE Data Is Garbage
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And I suggest you check some other sources. The GRACE satellites were a complete success.
No, these were simply results you preferred.From NASA
Oct 30, 2015
NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses
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"The study analyzed changes in the surface height of the Antarctic ice sheet measured by radar altimeters on two European Space Agency European Remote Sensing (ERS) satellites, spanning from 1992 to 2001, and by the laser altimeter on NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) from 2003 to 2008."
They used far more reliable satellite data.
I ignored you links because I didn't even notice them. I don't pay you a lot of attention. To be honest, I don't pay any of you a lot of attention.Here is what you missed when your prejudice kicked in that caused you to ignore my links and CONTENT:
Since melting all the ice on the planet, which would have to happen to melt all the ice on Antarctica, would raise sea levels 240 feet and just about exterminate the human species, I'm glad we've only experienced a trivial portion of that melt so far. But just for easy figuring, you can go from (metric) gigatonnes of ice lost to millimeters sea level rise by dividing the mass loss by 361.8. So the, say, 2400 GT lost on your upper graph corresponds to 6.63 mm of sea level rise. That represents 8% of total sea level rise in that span. Calculating glacier ice volumes and sea level equivalents - AntarcticGlaciers.orgNewsweek
NASA Discovers Mantle Plume Almost as Hot as Yellowstone Supervolcano That's Melting Antarctica From Below
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 11/8/17
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mantle plume producing almost as much heat as Yellowstone supervolcano appears to be melting part of West Antarctica from beneath.
Researchers at NASA have discovered a huge upwelling of hot rock under Marie Byrd Land, which lies between the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea, is creating vast lakes and rivers under the ice sheet. The presence of a huge mantle plume could explain why the region is so unstable today, and why it collapsed so quickly at the end of the last Ice Age, 11,000 years ago.
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and,
Nature
Evidence of an active volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island Glacier
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and,
Geological Society Publications
A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica
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and,
Live Sciences
Hidden Volcanoes Melt Antarctic Glaciers from Below
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and,
ABC News
First Subglacial Eruption Found in Antarctica
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There is more available elsewhere in the forum.
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Claimed losses versus total mass (this part MSM doesn't mention)
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