"That just might work!"
Posted on 07/13/2015 7:23:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Geothermal heating - from within the Earth's core, not the possibly warming air or sea - beneath the much-studied West Antarctic Ice Sheet has been measured for the first time ever, and been found to be "surprisingly high".
The West Antarctic sheet is the part of the Antarctic ice cap thought to be easiest to melt and thus worries over global warming and sea-level rise lead to it being investigated much more than other parts of the frozen austral continent. Some parts of it, for instance the Pine Island Glacier, have appeared at times to be melting faster and faster, though it is not clear that this is due to global warming.
At other times, ice loss to the sea has appeared to slow right down.
Meanwhile all around the rest of Antarctica, the extent of sea ice has been growing not shrinking, such that there is nowadays much more Antarctic sea ice than there used to be - a circumstance which climate scientists admit has them stumped.
It's all a very confusing picture, then, and to make it worse nobody until now has had any idea how much heat might be reaching the possibly-troubled West Antarctic sheet not from the somewhat warmer seas and atmosphere, but from the rock beneath it.
That uncertainty has now been lessened somewhat, with instrumental readings from below the ice obtained and published at last in the journal Science Advances.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Rick Moran of The American Thinker notes:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/another_global_warming_canard_exposed.html
The geothermal measurement may explain the disparity between the melting of the ice sheet and ice accumulating on the rest of the continent.
But have no fear: our intrepid global warming hysterics will cast about for an explanation that will blame humans for the volcanic activity. That’s the advantage of advocating “settled science.” Global warming means never having to say you’re sorry...or that you’re wrong.
Isn’t there also an active volcano in Antarctica (I believe it’s Mt. Erebus) that is also throwing off readings of temperature on that continent?
Just out of curiosity, how do they land that Hercy Bird at the other end on a hard runway?
Do they swap out the skids in mid air?
Indeed! Time to fudge the data again.
Looks like the skids have holes in them for the wheels to poke through
Geez. You mean to tell us that the goron was right and the erf’s core is really millions of degrees f? They ought to pass a law. :>}
Ping.
Crap. Geoprogenic global warming. What the hell do we do about THAT?
Hmmm. That would work. I don’t quite see them, but I trust you.
Raise taxes. DUH!
Ice buildup caused by global cooling on one side and ice melting caused by global warming on the other side.
That proves global Climate Change! Brilliant!
Well, that was an easy fix. Next!
Blame Bush.
Build giant radiators in outer space and pump the core heat out in a 1000 year program that requires all of mankind (sic) to submit to total global control and concentrate all wealth and resources in the hands of an all wise government.
It's almost as if the earth does whatever the hell it wants regardless of what we do.
Blame fracking and Bush.
Well, Algore did say that the center of the Earth was MILLIONS of degrees, didn’t he? Where else is all that heat supposed to go?
I see jato so this is TO.
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