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A Hole Opens Up Under Antarctic Glacier -- Big Enough To Fit Two-Thirds of Manhattan (nbcnews.com)
Scientists have discovered an enormous void under an Antarctic glacier, sparking concern that the ice sheet is melting faster than anyone had realized -- and spotlighting the dire threat posed by rising seas to coastal cities around the world, including New York City and Miami. From a report: The cavity under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is about six miles long and 1,000 feet deep -- representing the loss of 14 billion tons of ice. It was discovered after an analysis of data collected by Italian and German satellites, as well as NASA's Operation IceBridge, a program in which aircraft equipped with ice-penetrating radar fly over polar regions to study the terrain. The discovery is described in a paper published Jan. 30 in the journal Science Advances. The researchers expected to see significant loss of ice, but the scale of the void came as a shock.
"representing the loss of 14 billion tons of ice."
So they KNOW for a fact that ice has always been there? Or are we just assuming it was there because we did not find this until now? There are a lot of assumptions going on here... and because of the "Cult of Global Warming" it is now impossible have have responsible discussion.
Was the ice there before? Why is that information not being provided? Oh wait... I get it... just like people of faith are required to accept the existence of their Gods, the GW Cult expects all the deniers to take what they think on faith too!
Science these days is starting to require more faith than many religions.
Then that is less water to fill the oceans that cause sea rise. win win!
No, puny human, the entire ice shelf is thousands of time larger than the hole that was discovered.
However, the undermining of the ice shelf has advanced more than expected and portends the entire ice shelf, as well as the glaciers behind it melting out to sea.
Funny how "puny" humans are the object of thoughtless "progressive" (but I repeat myself) bog-standard misanthropy and get blamed for everything wrong - especially if they're white, Christian males.
But if those old white males are Democrats, they can dance around in blackface or abuse women and have "progressives" apologizing for them...
Gawd, it's hilarious to watch Trump trigger the Democrats into destroying themselves - unless you think advocating "post-birth" abortions, open borders for illegals, 90% marginal tax rates, and nationalizing all US health care is going to win elections.
Once the media cracks and the Trump Derangement Sydrome-driven narrative falls apart, the results are going to be absolutely wonderful - Trump has approval ratings with the media lined up against him pretty much about what Obama had with the media covering for him.
And it just might start happening with a new Attorney General who knows the DoJ and can start pulling the covers off the Obama/Clinton use of FISA warrants against Trump's campaign.
Because that's what causes democracy to die - the use of secret intelligence services against political opponents. And THAT IS WHAT OBAMA DID .
And you "progressives" fucking know it, too. That's why you're running scared.
No you are, and just like I said before hand. The Cult of Global Warming no longer has any sanity left.
"The landscape is changing, and it stands to reason that something is causing these changes."
yes that reason is alwasy 100% GW right and nothing else.
" Thanks to ground penetrating radar, we know what."
Utter BS... you only know if it is there or not... not necessarily that you know what caused it.
"So, I guess I'll be waiting for your publication."
No, the responsibility for proving it existed before hand is on then. This is why you are cultist. You require me to publish proof of the opposite but have no trouble believing their unproven accusations without a problem.
All I am asking for is proof that it existed before hand but that is tantamount to "Flaimbait" as mentioned here. You lack sanity!
...90% marginal tax rates, and nationalizing all US health care...
The number is 70%, and nobody has ever talked about nationalizing all health care. Unsurprising really that an fucking conservatard would deliberately tell an exaggerated lie to make his case seem more compelling.
It's just so hard to take anything else you say seriously after that.
You might have even had a valid point in there, but I'll never know because I stopped reading the minute I saw the hyperbolic lie.
More likely though you probably had an ad hominem. Or you'll reply to this with an ad hominem. And no, calling you a fucking conservatard isn't an ad hominem. It's just what you are and I'm calling a, ahem, spade a spade.