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Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: For those who read ()
Date: June 13, 2018 05:00PM

Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half-millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday.

The melt rate has tripled in the past decade, the study concluded. If the acceleration continues, some of scientists’ worst fears about rising oceans could be realized, leaving low-lying cities and communities with less time to prepare than they had hoped.

The result also reinforces that nations have a short window — perhaps no more than a decade — to cut greenhouse-gas emissions if they hope to avert some of the worst consequences of climate change.

Antarctica, the planet’s largest ice sheet, lost 219 billion tons of ice annually from 2012 through 2017 — approximately triple the 73 billion-ton melt rate of a decade ago, the scientists concluded. From 1992 through 1997, Antarctica lost 49 billion tons of ice annually.

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: For those who real more ()
Date: June 13, 2018 05:44PM

Uhhhh... If you actually do read the studies regarding Antarctic ice loss then you'd see that it has nothing to do with CO2 or "climate change" and appears primarily related to subsurface geology/hydrology.

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: lets see the data ()
Date: June 13, 2018 06:05PM

For those who real more Wrote:
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> Uhhhh... If you actually do read the studies
> regarding Antarctic ice loss then you'd see that
> it has nothing to do with CO2 or "climate change"
> and appears primarily related to subsurface
> geology/hydrology.

Love to see your source - If you can prove this you should send the data and analysis to Nature. You will be very famous very quickly.

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: Plenty already published ()
Date: June 13, 2018 06:17PM

lets see the data Wrote:
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> For those who real more Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Uhhhh... If you actually do read the studies
> > regarding Antarctic ice loss then you'd see
> that
> > it has nothing to do with CO2 or "climate
> change"
> > and appears primarily related to subsurface
> > geology/hydrology.
>
> Love to see your source - If you can prove this
> you should send the data and analysis to Nature.
> You will be very famous very quickly.


You just don't read enough...


Mysterious geothermal 'mantle plume' under Antarctica is heating its ice sheet, NASA study confirms

PUBLISHED: 18:36 EDT, 7 November 2017 | UPDATED: 18:49 EDT, 7 November 2017


Scientists have uncovered new evidence for an ancient heat source beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet.

The underground mantle plume is thought to be driving some of the melting seen beneath the ice, giving rise to lakes and rivers.

It’s thought to have formed 50-110 million years ago, long before the ice sheet itself, and has likely played a role in rapid collapses that took place during past periods of climate change – and, it could help explain the instability seen today.


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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6996

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: FrostyTSM ()
Date: June 13, 2018 07:50PM

The ice sheet will continue to melt, and there is not one fucking thing anyone can do to stop it.

Maybe worry about something else.
Like building levies.

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: Libtarded ()
Date: June 13, 2018 08:35PM

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: President Trump FTW! ()
Date: June 13, 2018 08:36PM

Wait a second. You mean to tell me that ice melts? Oh the horror!

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: sorry I checked your source ()
Date: June 13, 2018 10:09PM

Plenty already published Wrote:
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> lets see the data Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > For those who real more Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Uhhhh... If you actually do read the studies
> > > regarding Antarctic ice loss then you'd see
> > that
> > > it has nothing to do with CO2 or "climate
> > change"
> > > and appears primarily related to subsurface
> > > geology/hydrology.
> >
> > Love to see your source - If you can prove this
> > you should send the data and analysis to Nature.
>
> > You will be very famous very quickly.
>
>
> You just don't read enough...
>
>
> Mysterious geothermal 'mantle plume' under
> Antarctica is heating its ice sheet, NASA study
> confirms
>
> PUBLISHED: 18:36 EDT, 7 November 2017 | UPDATED:
> 18:49 EDT, 7 November 2017
>
>
> Scientists have uncovered new evidence for an
> ancient heat source beneath the West Antarctic ice
> sheet.
>
> The underground mantle plume is thought to be
> driving some of the melting seen beneath the ice,
> giving rise to lakes and rivers.
>
> It’s thought to have formed 50-110 million years
> ago, long before the ice sheet itself, and has
> likely played a role in rapid collapses that took
> place during past periods of climate change –
> and, it could help explain the instability seen
> today.
>
>
> src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/07/23/
> 461DA7D100000578-5060079-The_underground_mantle_pl
> ume_is_thought_to_be_driving_some_of_th-m-11_15100
> 97770126.jpg">
>
>
> https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=699
> 6

Funny the same people who did your 'study' on the mantle plume (I found articles but never found any of them citing the exact study). Anyway NASA did the study claimed by these articles and you -NASA.

You might want to look at their overall conclusions about climate change causes - they have quite a nifty website here https://climate.nasa.gov/

Im afraid you will be disappointed to find out that NASA does not cite 'Mantle plumes' as the cause for world wide temperature increase (nor the ice melt). Seriously stop reading bullshit that states fractions of science overrule the overall consensus in a field. I feel like insulting you but what would be the point? Alex, or Sean or someone will feed you pieces of science without you stepping back to think critically about it.

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Re: Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.
Posted by: Stick with Gender Studies ()
Date: June 13, 2018 10:23PM

sorry I checked your source Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Plenty already published Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > lets see the data Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > For those who real more Wrote:
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > -----
> > > > Uhhhh... If you actually do read the
> studies
> > > > regarding Antarctic ice loss then you'd see
> > > that
> > > > it has nothing to do with CO2 or "climate
> > > change"
> > > > and appears primarily related to subsurface
> > > > geology/hydrology.
> > >
> > > Love to see your source - If you can prove
> this
> > > you should send the data and analysis to
> Nature.
> >
> > > You will be very famous very quickly.
> >
> >
> > You just don't read enough...
> >
> >
> > Mysterious geothermal 'mantle plume' under
> > Antarctica is heating its ice sheet, NASA study
> > confirms
> >
> > PUBLISHED: 18:36 EDT, 7 November 2017 |
> UPDATED:
> > 18:49 EDT, 7 November 2017
> >
> >
> > Scientists have uncovered new evidence for an
> > ancient heat source beneath the West Antarctic
> ice
> > sheet.
> >
> > The underground mantle plume is thought to be
> > driving some of the melting seen beneath the
> ice,
> > giving rise to lakes and rivers.
> >
> > It’s thought to have formed 50-110 million
> years
> > ago, long before the ice sheet itself, and has
> > likely played a role in rapid collapses that
> took
> > place during past periods of climate change –
> > and, it could help explain the instability seen
> > today.
> >
> >
> > >
> src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/07/23/
>
> >
> 461DA7D100000578-5060079-The_underground_mantle_pl
>
> >
> ume_is_thought_to_be_driving_some_of_th-m-11_15100
>
> > 97770126.jpg">
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=699
>
> > 6
>
> Funny the same people who did your 'study' on the
> mantle plume (I found articles but never found any
> of them citing the exact study). Anyway NASA did
> the study claimed by these articles and you
> -NASA.
>
> You might want to look at their overall
> conclusions about climate change causes - they
> have quite a nifty website here
> https://climate.nasa.gov/
>
> Im afraid you will be disappointed to find out
> that NASA does not cite 'Mantle plumes' as the
> cause for world wide temperature increase (nor the
> ice melt). Seriously stop reading bullshit that
> states fractions of science overrule the overall
> consensus in a field. I feel like insulting you
> but what would be the point? Alex, or Sean or
> someone will feed you pieces of science without
> you stepping back to think critically about it.


You're an idiot. I gave you a link that references the exact study:

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Their paper, "Influence of a West Antarctic mantle plume on ice sheet basal conditions," was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

http://austhrutime.com/antarctica_has_huge_mantle_plume_beneath_it%20.htm

We're not talking about "climate change." We're talking specifically about Antarctica and articles like this which incorrectly assume Antarctic ice loss is associated with "global warming." Anthropogenic global warming is not believed at this point to be the primary driver for the effects in Antarctica.

There are many studies addressing this which you can easily find if you weren't reading stupid slanted shit from HuffPo, et. al.

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