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Why Antarctica Is Getting Taller (livescience.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Live Science: Bedrock under Antarctica is rising more swiftly than ever recorded -- about 1.6 inches (41 millimeters) upward per year. And thinning ice in Antarctica may be responsible. That's because as ice melts, its weight on the rock below lightens. And over time, when enormous quantities of ice have disappeared, the bedrock rises in response, pushed up by the flow of the viscous mantle below Earth's surface, scientists reported in a new study. These uplifting findings are both bad news and good news for the frozen continent. The good news is that the uplift of supporting bedrock could make the remaining ice sheets more stable. The bad news is that in recent years, the rising earth has probably skewed satellite measurements of ice loss, leading researchers to underestimate the rate of vanishing ice by as much as 10 percent, the scientists reported. The findings were published in the journal Science.
I knew all along it was a scam.
Why do the /. editors feel the need to use bigger numbers? There's no competition to be won on this one, and the normal way to express size in context is 4,1 cm not 41mm
Seems like this much mass moving would have an effect on the surrounding plates.
It's currently subducting under the south american plate.
Seems like it could snap off and cause tsunami's along thousands of miles of south american coast line.
It interacts with six other plates in total.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Why don't we admit it's time as a species to find and smash the dangerously retarded and aggressively dishonest pseudobrains of Superfag_Kendoll and klan, the denialist retards of no value in 2018's conversations?
I'm not saying find him and murder him, just break all the bones in his faggot face and leave him in a trash bin, that sort of thing. It's for the good of all life on Earth, and slashdot of course also.
The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives.
And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women...
Are they human or are they fat, wheezing animals, hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old?
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Bedrock under Antarctica is rising more swiftly than ever recorded -- about 1.6 inches (41 millimeters) upward per year. And thinning ice in Antarctica may be responsible.
Given how my work days lately have seemed longer and longer, I was going to say that Earth is probably rotating more slowly and so assuming a more perfectly spherical shape.
We can test my hypothesis by measuring to see if there is a corresponding subsidence at the equator.
So now Antarctica wishes it was a baller?
If you lose 1cm of ice above rock, that would allow the rock below to rise MORE than 1cm?
Has nobody considered that rock is way, way heavier than ice? It's just not physically possible!
Donald Trump is using global warming to thaw out that freakishly cold wasteland called Antarctica. Once thawed, he can use the space to build affordable housing for disadvantaged African American and Latino Americans.
Of coarse the liberals do not like this, because they like keeping Latino Americans and African Americans trapped in subsidized housing that makes rich liberals billions of dollars in Section 8 funds. Also they will not like it because Antarctica used to be the exclusive playground of Whites and penguins. Liberals like penguins. People not so much.
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Seriously - global warming is happening, it's going to continue...let's not be science deniers.
Psychology is a science, and it tells us that humans are selfishly motivated until compelled by force.
Nobody is going to war to stop fossil fuel usage... so lets just start mitigating effects.
All this thawing woke him up.
Reading the crap the author spews on Twitter, it's obvious that this article is full of political bias instead of straight up science.
The extrapolations being made from this article are ridiculous. The idea that the small elevation increase will aid in slowing ice movement is simply disproportionate from reality. Ohio is still rebounding from the last ice age, this is a process that occurs over thousand year time spans. We are melting the ice magnitudes of order faster than the rebound can occur.
If we manage to melt all of the ice on Antarctica for centuries, not only will Antarctica rise a mile, but the continents in the norther hemisphere will be sucked inwards so that the volume of the spheroid remains constant. Most of the southern and central US will once again be seabed in 100,000 years. If Antarctica is rising as fast as they say, then the sea floor of the northern Atlantic and Pacific are likely already sinking. Crust cannot rise in one place without compensation elsewhere. The volume of the earth has to remain constant.
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Aunt R.D. Caw is getting shorter as she gets older. Still kicks ass at bridge though. She says it's allll in the viscous mantle.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Can I get a copy of the random text generating script you use to post? It will save me a lot of time racking up my -1 scores. I have no problem admitting you consistently manage to get more -1 and faster than I do and I admire you.
Hurry Lynnwood, we need some denialists to counter all the science !!
...to this single article which focuses on Western Antarctica there are a number of recent scholarly articles, including findings by NASA ( https://principia-scientific.o... ), that show ice growth Eastern Antarctica that offsets the loss in the west for a net gain.
Skew the data by not providing all the facts and you too can go full Chicken Little about anything. *smdh*
"That can either make things temporarily more stable or in probability outcomes temporarily more unstable."
Climate Change - bringing false dichotomies and unverifiable claims since Arrehnius first miscalculated the greenhouse effect of CO2. He corrected his mistake in a later paper but the damage had already been done. 200 years later and the effects are still expressed as a possible range from 'Nothing to see here' to 'OMG we're all going to die (and probably should already be dead)".
Sad really.