NASA REPORT: Antarctic Ice Sheet is Actually… Growing By Billions of Tons!

[basquebromance]

boy oh boy, liberal nutjobs are havin a bad week!

NASA REPORT: Antarctic Ice Sheet is Actually... Growing By Billions of Tons?

 

[Moonglow]

Then we should all enjoy some home made ice cream..hand cranked, non of that modern motor cranked stuff...Just like when I was a kid..

 

[tyroneweaver]

If I stick ice in a room at 33 degrees it's going to melt.
But it don't mean the room is getting any warmer.

 

[Moonglow]

If I stick ice in a room at 33 degrees it's going to melt.
But it don't mean the room is getting any warmer.

The secret is to eat it really fast....

 

[skookerasbil]

Hmmm...........what a bad week for the progressive k00ks. Lets face it.....the public is sick and tired about Arctic Ice after 20 years of bs

And for non-k00ks its................

Epic........Epic....................

 

[IanC]

boy oh boy, liberal nutjobs are havin a bad week!

NASA REPORT: Antarctic Ice Sheet is Actually... Growing By Billions of Tons?

this is not new information. I believe the data actually ends in 2009.

perhaps a more interesting question is why the actual paper was only released after it was too late to be included in IPCC AR5

 

[Old Rocks]

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses

We’re essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Thwaites and Pine Island region of West Antarctica,” said Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology. “Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.” Zwally added that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”



Scientists calculate how much the ice sheet is growing or shrinking from the changes in surface height that are measured by the satellite altimeters. In locations where the amount of new snowfall accumulating on an ice sheet is not equal to the ice flow downward and outward to the ocean, the surface height changes and the ice-sheet mass grows or shrinks.



But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica’s growth to reverse, according to Zwally. “If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”

Now Basko, you really should go to the original article rather than what the interpretation of some "Conservative" jerkoff is. And that is just one scientists conclusion from the evidence. One paper out of many on the subject, the others stating that there is a net loss.

For the last few years the wingnuts on this subject have been stating how the growth of the Antarctic Sea Ice proves that the globe isn't warming. This year, the Antarctic Sea Ice is at an all time low.

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag

 

[basquebromance]

 

[Old Rocks]

And, in a few short months, the US will be looking for a way out of Trump.

 

[Old Rocks]

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag


Antarctic Sea Ice

 

[Wuwei]

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses

The article you cited also said this:

“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said.
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Warmer air precipitating more moisture clearly implies that an increasing amount of ice or snow is not necessarily related to global warming. However more precipitation is related to a slower sea level rise.