Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station

schwit1 writes "A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded."

Comments

Welp,

[James Skarzinskas]

All thanks to President Obama.

Re:Welp,

[powerslave12r]

He solved the issue of Global Warming? Already?

Re:Welp,

[dogmatixpsych]

No. Al Gore did. Pres. Obama just gets the credit just like other people received the credit for "the internet." ;)

Re:Welp,

[Kjella]

Yeah, damn him here he was promising change and first thing he does is to halt everything and preserve the status quo. Politicans, you just can't trust them.

Re:Welp,

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, you should thank the Somali pirates. Now, I think we can all agree that, based on overwhelming evidence, piracy prevents global warming. There's UNDENIABLE PROOF for that. I mean, if you can't tell that correlation equals causation, well, you're just in denial, or being paid off. With the recent surges in piracy, how can that ice not grow? It is simple logic, stupid! Now, I know that the mainstream media will probably call them thieves and killers (because they are obviously in the pocket of Al Gore and Big Carbon Credit), but I'm going to call them what they really are: Heroes, righteous environmental crusaders, examples for all of us to follow. Somali pirates, I salute you!

Re:Welp,

[XavierItzmann]

Well, in his nomination acceptance speech on June 3, 2008, Obama did say that his presidency would be remembered as:

"the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."

Moses had nothing on this guy. He only parted one measly sea, let alone oceans.

Re:Welp,

[MrNaz]

Al Gore also invented general purpose computing. Why else do you think they call it an Algore-ism?

Re:Welp,

[Curunir_wolf]

What the big stink anyway...the earth has only had ice at its poles for about 30% of its existence. It comes and goes with or without humans and has for millennium. Some are being a tad arrogant to think the human can affect such a chaotic large system.

Why is he modded a troll?

Arrogant human with mod points

Re:Welp,

[Toonol]

Slavery is a lot more appealing to people who envision themselves as masters.

Re:Welp,

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets see, broad generalizations with no proof that attacks the "big bad United States" = positive mod-points. CHECK.

Any response to his statement that asks him for proof, citations, of facts to back up his statement = negative mod-points. CHECK

My pointing out this inconvenient truth = mod-troll. CHECK


Welcome to the era of Obama where the facts don't matter, just your intentions. Fuck, even Carter wasn't this bad.

how bout them apples

[superwiz]

inconvenient truth?

Oh boy!

[Virak]

Time for a mature, enlightened debate on climate change, by people with thorough knowledge of the field who don't parrot long-discredited bullshit at all! I do so enjoy these discussions. They're almost as intelligent as Slashdot discussions on economics.

Re:People don't seem to understand

[Idiomatick]

Wait you actually worked in a research lab. I'm pretty sure here on /. that makes you biased. Since if you worked in a climate research lab you are pro-climate change. All them researchers are pro climate change so clearly your opinion is worthless.

Headline more accurate than article?!

[Greg Lindahl]

This must be a first.

CORPORATE INTEREST NOT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE

[Anonymous Coward]

Ice core drilling is MURDER. These so called "scientists" are performing genocide against this ice in the name of "research". If these EVIL ACTS are really in the name of science, why then are our supermarket and service station cold boxes simply overflowing with DICED ICE-MEAT?

Think about it - "cubed" ice is a multi-million dollar industry. Don't be fooled by the lies, FIGHT THE ECO-TERRORISTS!!!

Re:Separation of Science and States

[Anonymous Coward]

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change
their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really
do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP keynote address

Global Warming is 50% politics, 50% religion and 10% science.

And yes, they certainly are giving it 110%.

Re:Temperature

[Anne Thwacks]

Bloodletting and prayer are much more advanced than economics.

We know for sure that:

a) If there are N economists, there are N! explanations of what is happening, of which < 1 are probably correct.

b) The more qualified an economist, the less likely his predictions are to be right.

I would say climatology is in the same boat.