Another Inconvenient Truth? New NASA Study Finds Antarctica Is Gaining Ice!

Zero Hedge ^ | 11/03/2015 | Tyler Durden

[SeekAndFind]

Well this is awkward. Just a month after former Aussie PM Tony Abbott openly questioned global warming data (and was 'replaced'), a new NASA study finds another inconvenient truth - Antarctica has been adding more ice than it's been losing, challenging other research, including that of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that concludes that Earth’s southern continent is losing land ice overall.

As Christian Science Monitor reports,

In a paper published in the Journal of Glaciology on Friday, researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland in College Park, and the engineering firm Sigma Space Corporation offer a new analysis of satellite data that show a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001 in the Antarctic ice sheet.

 

That gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

 

 

Climate scientists caution that these findings don’t mean it’s time to start celebrating the end of global warming.

 

More than anything, the paper shows how difficult it is to measure ice height in Antarctica and that better tools are needed.

For now, the study authors say, these findings challenge current explanations for sea level rise, much of which is attributed to melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

"The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away," said Dr. Zwally.

 

"But this is also bad news,” he added. “If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for."

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Perhaps it is time to burn just a little more fossil fuel? And maybe VW was doing a global good with its defeat device?

Paging Al Gore.

[TigersEye]

Given the price of beef today that is definitely theoretical to me. :-(

[HenpeckedCon]

“But this is also bad news,” he added. “If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”

0.23 millimeters? What’s that, the width of a hair?

[TigersEye]

Maybe they got a hair on their lens!

Arctic snow not darkening due to soot, dust

"But a new Dartmouth-led study shows that degrading satellite sensors, not soot or dust, are responsible for the apparent decline in reflectivity of inland ice across northern Greenland."

[A Navy Vet]

"All that ice will make us fall out of the galaxy."

Didn't know that. Although, some wise Congress-critter told me that Guam could tip over due to increasing military personnel presence on that island. I was ready to go to DC for the protest and had signs ready, "Don't Sink Guam" or "Save The Children - Keep Guam Afloat" and " Stop US Military Torpeding Guam to Sink". I just couldn't imagine the loss of life and had nightmares about Guam slowly sinking into the abyss.

[A Navy Vet]

Another study; another day. And yet the Sun continues to have fewer sun-spots that the “climatologists” ignore. Am I the only one that paid attention in science class?

[A Navy Vet]

"Given the price of beef today that is definitely theoretical to me. :-("

That's truly sad. However, I have sirloin in the freezer for a special occasion. Thinking next Thursday. Got Airline miles?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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[Ben Ficklin]

Formation or gains in Antarctic land ice is a result of precipitation. Loss is a result of melting or sublimation.

The "better tools" they need is the IceSat 2 satellite that launches in 2017.

As for the sea levels, that is ocean topography and the Jason 3 launch has been delayed.

Ocean Surface Topography Mission

[TigersEye]

I thank you much for the offer!
If I weren’t sticking close to the momma (Alzheimer’s)
I’d hop a freight train. (I have a TSA allergy)

Is next Thursday special? Beyond being next Thursday?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for every new sunrise
on this overheated planet. ;-)

[TruthWillWin]

To fix the global cooling problem we all need to buy a VW SUV.

[corlorde]

0.23 millimeters? What's that, the width of a hair?

Yep, just wide enough to justify wealth confiscation, in the mind of the modern day liberal.

[GOPJ]

The New York Times is going to ignore this story... same with the suck ups at the Washington Post.

[A Navy Vet]

" The "better tools" they need is the IceSat 2 satellite that launches in 2017. As for the sea levels, that is ocean topography and the Jason 3 launch has been delayed."

Will the raw data from those satellites be available to the public or secretively massaged by the "global warming/global change" crowd?