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NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-polar-bear-country dept.

deman1985 writes "A recently released NASA study has shown that the Antarctic ice shelf is shrinking at an alarming rate of 36 cubic miles per year. The study, run from April 2002 to August 2005, indicates that the melting accounted for 1.2 millimeters of global sea level rise for the period. From the article: 'That is about how much water the United States consumes in three months and represents a change of about 0.4 millimeter (0.01575 inch) per year to global sea level rise, the study concluded. The study claims the majority of the melting to have occurred in the West Antarctic ice sheet."

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  1. Re:Contradictory information by mrchaotica · · Score: 0, Troll
    Apparently, global warming makes it colder. Make up my mind already.
    Global warming makes it colder in places that are already cold enough to begin with. It makes it hotter in places that are already hot. It makes it drier in places that are too dry, and it makes it wetter in places that are too wet. It makes storms even stormier.

    In other words, global warming fucks everything up. Clear enough for you now?
    --

    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  2. This nonsense is about fluctuations in gravity. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmmm.

    So they didn't actually measure the ice fields. They didn't go and actually measure the volume of the ice fields.

    No what they did was measure fluctuations in the gravity field, whipped up some calculations on what they think that means, i.e. WAG = Wild Ass Guess, and called it a day. Plus the the period of time in the study is only a few years. So if the Western ice field had a really great year that very first year of the study and then subsequent years didn't accumulate as much snow, then that's Global Warming. Wow that's something to really put my faith into.

    What's even more amusing is that they don't actually mention the East ice field in this study, only the West one. Why is this interesting? Because the East ice field is accumulating far more snow than the West is losing. Particularly since the East ice field is about 3-4 times as big as the West.

    Is there any greater curse on America than liberals posing as scientists.