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Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing?

Posted by michael on from the weird-science dept.

kraut_juice writes: "The West Antarctic Ice Sheet just may have stopped melting, scientists reported on Thursday. Experts have been saying there is little evidence that global warming is responsible for melting the ice sheet."

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  1. Won't somebody think of the penguins?!? by Score0,+Overrated · · Score: 2, Informative

    The penguins are suffering this year because of the strange behaviour down there.

  2. Re:Echo's.. by Transcendent · · Score: 4, Informative

    The earth's magnetic field has nothing to do with the weather going on about the surface of the earth. When the earth's magnetic field changes (which it does... and we think it has a couple of times), all that is happening is a shift in the flow of the super-hot, liquid metal core (since it is iron, and iron is one of the naturally occuring ferromagnets, along with nickle and some other elements). So when the magnetic field changes, it's just showing that the direction of the flow within the earth has shifted... it can even shift direction entirely. Just think... north becomes south, and south becomes north.

    Although you may think that the flow in the hot core may change things above the surface... the heat that disipates up to the surface is very very small (except for volcanos and such). The only flow that effects the climate on earth is (besides the jet stream) the ocean currents.

  3. Another Version by DustMagnet · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/i ce020117.html

    This one gets the science a little better.

    Too bad no one is reading this low. :-)

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