re: The latest on Global Warming

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Not in terms of overall growth. Both overall ice sheet mass and sea ice mass are growing.

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The links in the OP article which the OP claim refer to sea ice melting actually refer to ice sheet melting. That OP article's premise is based on this faulty claim. You continue to dance all you want, but this is /thread.

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The links in the OP article which the OP claim refer to sea ice melting actually refer to ice sheet melting. That OP article's premise is based on this faulty claim. You continue to dance all you want, but this is /thread.

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Antarctic Ice Mass is growing. True or False?

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N...no?

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Do you understand the term "Antarctica"?
Do you understand the term "ice-sheets" as pertains to Antarctica?
Do you understand, for example, the EAIS dwarfs the WAIS?
Do you understand even slight growth in EAIS mass can more than compensate loss in the WAIS?

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Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses
H. Jay Zwally'. Jun Li', John Robbins2, Jack 1. Saba2, Donghui Yi', Anita Brenner', and David
Bromwich4
July 14, 2012

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During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gtlyr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change. The net gain (86 Gtlyr) over the West Antarctic (WA) and East Antarctic ice sheets (W A and EA) is essentially unchanged from revised results for 1992 to 2001 from ERS radar altimetry. Imbalances in individual drainage systems (DS) are large (-68% to +103% of input), as are temporal changes (-39% to +44%). The recent 90 Gtlyr loss from three DS (Pine Island, Thwaites-Smith, and Marie-Bryd Coast) of WA exceeds the earlier 61 Gtlyr loss, consistent with reports of accelerating ice flow and dynamic thinning. Similarly, the recent 24 Gtlyr loss from three DS in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is consistent with glacier accelerations following breakup of the Larsen B and other ice shelves.

In contrast, net increases in the five other DS of WA and AP and three of the 16 DS in East Antarctica (EA) exceed the increased losses. Alternate interpretations of the mass changes driven by accumulation variations are given using results from atmospheric-model re-analysis and a parameterization based on 5% change in accumulation per degree of observed surface temperature change. A slow increase in snowfall with climate wanning, consistent with model predictions, may be offsetting increased dynamic losses.

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Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise
Curt H. Davis1,*, Yonghong Li1, Joseph R. McConnell2, Markus M. Frey3, Edward Hanna4 + Author Affiliations 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA. 2 Desert Research Institute, University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512, USA. 3 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. 4 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

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Satellite radar altimetry measurements indicate that the East Antarctic ice-sheet interior north of 81.6°S increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003. Comparisons with contemporaneous meteorological model snowfall estimates suggest that the gain in mass was associated with increased precipitation.

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ICESAT Data Shows Mass Gains of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Exceed Losses - September 10, 2012

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Do you understand the term "Antarctica"?
Do you understand the term "ice-sheets" as pertains to Antarctica?
Do you understand, for example, the EAIS dwarfs the WAIS?
Do you understand even slight growth in EAIS mass can more than compensate loss in the WAIS?

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I understand all these things, which is why the link I gave explicitly quantified the per-sheet loss by mass rather than area. Unless you'd like to argue that a gigaton weighs more in the EAIS than the WAIS, none of what you just said is relevant to the paper I linked.

Hint: The "losses exceed gains" paper is from later than the "gains exceed losses" presentation. They share four authors, including Dr. Zwally, the team lead giving the presentation. The paper samples from a longer time period and from more sources. It includes the term "reconciled estimate." We can draw certain conclusions from this. One of them is that relying on a hasty site:wattsupwiththat.com [keyword] Google for your rebuttal without bothering to read or understand either source is a tricky business.

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East Antartica's plus/minus is 3 times the actual measurement.

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Yes. Functionally, we still aren't sure whether the EAIS is growing or shrinking. Of course, skeptics will argue that not only are we sure the EAIS is growing, we're sure it's growing enough to compensate for the WAIS and the peninsula. They know this because... look! a squirrel! Al Gore is fat! Hockey sticks! Socialism!

Yeah, if I were you I'd stick to emoticon-based rebuttals too.

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Yeah, if I were you I'd stick to emoticon-based rebuttals too.

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Look, the EAIS is growing. The WAIS is shrinking. Both are precipitation related. It is what it is.

If you want to attempt a credible counter that we know nearly exact parameters of WAIS decline, but nothing of the EAIS, then be my guest. It's a ridiculous position. Even most avowed warmists would realize that. But by all means, have at it.

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is within the margin of error of zero

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and what a margin it was!

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You responded with a frankly embarassing WUWT turd-mine

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(1) Net increases in the EAIS exceed WAIS losses. A slow increase in snowfall with climate wanning, consistent with model predictions, may be offsetting increased dynamic losses.

(2) The East Antarctic ice-sheet increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003

Period!

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Antarctic Ice Mass is growing. True or False?

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We combined an ensemble of satellite altimetry, interferometry, and gravimetry data sets using common geographical regions, time intervals, and models of surface mass balance and glacial isostatic adjustment to estimate the mass balance of Earth’s polar ice sheets. We find that there is good agreement between different satellite methods—especially in Greenland and West Antarctica—and that combining satellite data sets leads to greater certainty. Between 1992 and 2011, the ice sheets of Greenland, East Antarctica, West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula changed in mass by –142 ± 49, +14 ± 43, –65 ± 26, and –20 ± 14 gigatonnes year-1, respectively. Since 1992, the polar ice sheets have contributed, on average, 0.59 ± 0.20 millimeter year-1 to the rate of global sea-level rise.

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+14 + -65 + -20 = ???

you do the math.

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They can't get it anymore exact than that?

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The can but the scale they used to weigh continents is broken right now.

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It's not current research. Are you just going to ignore this fact and keep repeating the WUWT post?

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He is.

There are actually three common authors between the papers.