Good day all. According to the Church of Global Warming, (Algore be Praised!), the Earth has a fever and the ice sheets at the north and south poles will all melt away.
There’s just one small problem with that. The Antarctic ice sheet is actually getting larger, not smaller. Here are some of the details from Fox News:
Snow that began piling up 10,000 years ago in Antarctica is adding enough ice to offset the increased losses due to thinning glaciers, according to a NASA study. The latest findings appear to challenge other studies including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2013 report, which found that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
“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,” Jay Zwally, a glaciologist with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and lead author of the study, which was published on Oct. 30 in the Journal of Glaciology, said in a statement.
“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 said, adding that his team “measured small height changes over large areas, as well as the large changes observed over smaller areas.”
So, let me see if I understand this. Yes, parts of the ice sheet is thinning, but other parts are getting thicker, and doing so at a rate that exceeds the areas that are losing ice.
To quantify whether ice sheets are growing or shrinking, scientists measure changes in surface height with 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.
To assess the amount of snow accumulation, the researchers used meteorological data beginning in 1979 to show that the snowfall in East Antarctica actually decreased by 11 billion tons per year. They also used information on snow accumulation for tens of thousands of years, derived by other scientists from ice cores.
You know, there is also another thing that might be causing the Antarctic ice sheets to melt. They have discovered active volcanoes under the ice. I think the massive heat released by that might have a little something to do with thinning ice caps, don’t you agree? There is also the little thing of an ice age that ended, oh about 10,000 years ago. That may have an effect as well.
“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.
So warm air causes snow? Who would have thought?
The extra snowfall that began 10,000 years ago has been slowly accumulating on the ice sheet and compacting into solid ice over millennia, thickening the ice in East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica by an average of 0.7 inches per year. This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice – enough to outweigh the losses from fast-flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.
So New York isn’t going to be flooded out anytime soon? DAMN!
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”
How about things like geology? Areas that are subsiding into the ocean, such as New Orleans? And then there is good old fashioned fraud. We’ve seen a lot of that lately from the Church of Global Warming Climate Change. (Algore akbar!) The only other place where there is a huge amount of ice is the Arctic, and that ice is already floating in the ocean. If it melts, sea levels won’t rise. (Look up “Displacement” or drop an ice cube in a drink and let it melt. See if the glass overflows)
The study has caused quite a stir in the community of scientists who work in Antarctica, with some questioning the reliability of the satellite data and saying it does little to change the narrative that the continent is losing mass.
I think we’re beginning to hear things like “Heretic!” and “Burn the witch!” from the Global Warmists. Here are the facts. The climate changes. It always has. Sea levels rise and they fall. At the height of the last ice age, sea levels were hundreds of feet lower than they are now. In a few thousand years, another ice age will start and they will drop again. That is just the way things work and to assume humans can do anything for or against this is the height of delusion.
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