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Glacial melt has tripled in the Amundsen Sea
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:45 am
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:45 am
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WASHINGTON: The fastest-melting region of Antarctica is losing the equivalent weight in ice of Mount Everest every two years, with the melt rate of glaciers in the region tripling during the last decade, a new study has found.
The glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice faster than any other part of Antarctica and are the most significant Antarctic contributors to sea level rise, researchers said.
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Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:47 am to SpidermanTUba
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The glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice faster than any other part of Antarctica and are the most significant Antarctic contributors to sea level rise, researchers said.
So, this is a localized problem?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:49 am to SpidermanTUba
Ok so what do you want a politician to do about it? How much should you pay to stop it?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:49 am to Y.A. Tittle
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So, this is a localized problem?
Melting is a global problem. Increased ice pack is a local issue.
Physics 101
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:49 am to SpidermanTUba
I thought religious threads were frowned upon on the board.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:51 am to SpidermanTUba
Didn't AleGore, the inventor of the internet, tell us that all the glaciers would be completely melted by 2013?
And, how could he be wrong. After all, he did invent the internet!
And, how could he be wrong. After all, he did invent the internet!
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:54 am to SpidermanTUba
Aren't CO2 levels much lower on the southern hemisphere than the northern due to much less human activity on the Southern end? What is causing this? How much have the temps risen to melt all this ice?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:54 am to SpidermanTUba
I read like 2 weeks ago that Antarctic ice was thickening up. Wow must've been quite the heat wave come through.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:55 am to MMauler
quote:No, he said all of the Arctic (North Pole) sea ice would melt and be gone by 2014. Instead the Arctic sea ice is at a 10 year high now. See GumboPot's other thread on this board about that.
Didn't AleGore, the inventor of the internet, tell us that all the glaciers would be completely melted by 2013?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 9:58 am to MMauler
Maybe it's got something to do with the volcanos?
Measure with a micrometer, mark with a crayon, and cut with an axe. Keep plenty of decimal places to make it appear accurate.
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Scientists use computer models to try to predict the future of the ice sheet, but their lack of understanding of subglacial geothermal energy has been a glaring gap in these models. Measuring geothermal activity under the ice sheet is so difficult that researchers usually just enter one, uniform estimate for the contributions of geothermal heat to melting, Schroeder said.
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"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine," study co-author Don Blankenship, a geophysicist at UT Austin, said in a statement. "And then, you plop the most critical dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible."
Measure with a micrometer, mark with a crayon, and cut with an axe. Keep plenty of decimal places to make it appear accurate.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:00 am to SpidermanTUba
So glaciers have never melted before?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:00 am to son of arlo
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quote:
Scientists use computer models to try to predict the future of the ice sheet, but their lack of understanding of subglacial geothermal energy has been a glaring gap in these models. Measuring geothermal activity under the ice sheet is so difficult that researchers usually just enter one, uniform estimate for the contributions of geothermal heat to melting, Schroeder said.
quote:
"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine," study co-author Don Blankenship, a geophysicist at UT Austin, said in a statement. "And then, you plop the most critical dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible."
So, there may actually be more to my question than just as a rhetorical quip?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:04 am to Y.A. Tittle
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So, there may actually be more to my question than just as a rhetorical quip?
I would guess so unless you're a location denier.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:18 am to SpidermanTUba
Soooo, is my F250 contributing to the melt or does it have nothing to do with the ice growth?
Someone please clear this up for me. TIA.
Someone please clear this up for me. TIA.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:24 am to SpidermanTUba
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SpidermanTUba
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:30 am to son of arlo
quote:Classic! "We can't model it, so... we'll just throw something in there, that delivers the favored result, so at defense we can say 'we considered that in modeled that in our model'".
Measuring geothermal activity under the ice sheet is so difficult that researchers usually just enter one, uniform estimate for the contributions of geothermal heat to melting, Schroeder said.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:48 am to Taxing Authority
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that delivers the favored result
That's science being restored to its proper place.
All that melting water has got to be raising sea level. Has Barry read about that in the newspaper yet?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:54 am to SpidermanTUba
GOOD!!
I am Anti-Glacier and hope they all die a watery, slightly less than freezing temperature death.
I am Anti-Glacier and hope they all die a watery, slightly less than freezing temperature death.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 10:56 am to Taxing Authority
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Classic! "We can't model it, so... we'll just throw something in there, that delivers the favored result, so at defense we can say 'we considered that in modeled that in our model'".
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