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Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Balance (yep, it's growing)
co2science.org ^ | 8 November 2006 | Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J.

Posted on 11/19/2006 3:51:00 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s

Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet.

Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J.

What was done The authors "analyzed 1.2 x 108 European remote sensing satellite altimeter echoes to determine the changes in volume of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2003." This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet," which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet.""

What was learned Wingham et al. report that "overall, the data, corrected for isostatic rebound, show the ice sheet growing at 5 ± 1 mm year-1." To calculate the ice sheet's change in mass, however, "requires knowledge of the density at which the volume changes have occurred," and when the researchers' best estimates of regional differences in this parameter are used, they find that "72% of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt year-1, a sink of ocean mass sufficient to lower [authors' italics] global sea levels by 0.08 mm year-1." This net extraction of water from the global ocean, according to Wingham et al., occurs because "mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic mass loss from West Antarctica."

What it means Contrary to all the horror stories one hears about global warming-induced mass wastage of the Antarctic ice sheet leading to rising sea levels that gobble up coastal lowlands worldwide, the most recent decade of pertinent real-world data suggest that forces leading to just the opposite effect are apparently prevailing, even in the face of what climate alarmists typically describe as the greatest warming of the world in the past two millennia or more.


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KEYWORDS: globalwarming
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Don't confuse the left with the facts.
1 posted on 11/19/2006 3:51:02 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Global warming causes cooling they say, a twisted theory where the only way they can be wrong is if the climate stays exactly the same. Something which can never happen. It's disturbing that so many believe the 'global catastrophe' is based on fact.
2 posted on 11/19/2006 3:55:47 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Algore put some ice on it.


3 posted on 11/19/2006 3:57:44 PM PST by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Now they just need to figure out why growing ice sheets will cause the end of life as we know it. Any change cam be made scary.


4 posted on 11/19/2006 4:00:56 PM PST by Always Right
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To: ChildOfThe60s

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!


5 posted on 11/19/2006 4:01:16 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Trent Lott. What more can I say?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You wrote: Don't confuse the left with the facts.

Ain't THAT the truth..... (roll eyes)


6 posted on 11/19/2006 4:01:34 PM PST by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I have long been concerned with global cooling ....we need to study it and do all we can to stop it


7 posted on 11/19/2006 4:03:16 PM PST by woofie (creativity is destructive)
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To: woofie

So does this mean we will forced to drive even bigger SUV's?


8 posted on 11/19/2006 4:05:29 PM PST by Kimmers (Please God; bless America)
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To: boomop1

9 posted on 11/19/2006 4:06:31 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
Since the antarctic ice sheet is growing, that is, its leading edges are moving farther north into warmer waters, then that could explain why there are large pieces of it breaking off. As for the ozone hole, that's explained by the smoking volcano down there. (The enviro-socialists have never explained why we don't have an ARCTIC ozone hole.)

Here's some data to back up this article: NEW FINDINGS SHOW ANTARCTIC COOLING AND ICE CAP EXPANSION

Here's a good index of articles: Dr Dewpoint Category Listing - Global Warming

10 posted on 11/19/2006 4:17:19 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." - GW Bush, referring to DNC's lack of a platform on ANYTHING)
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To: george76

Billy Bubba spends hundreds on a haircut, but Treebeard won't even spring for Costcutters!

11 posted on 11/19/2006 4:21:42 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Trent Lott. What more can I say?)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

It's OBVIOUSLY the result of Global Warming. Don't you people know anything? < s>


12 posted on 11/19/2006 4:31:57 PM PST by SIDENET (Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
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To: SIDENET

Its been a scientifically proven FACT that the Antartic ice sheet CONTRACTS during years of Republican control of congress, and EXPANDS during years of 'Rat control of congress.


13 posted on 11/19/2006 4:35:21 PM PST by C210N (Bush SPIED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

WE'RE DOOMED!


14 posted on 11/19/2006 4:35:48 PM PST by RockinRight (The loss is temporary, hopefully we learn from our mistakes.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

But--but Arnie says California is onboard with the Kyoto treaty. And--and the Dems in congress say they're going to pass all kinds of new regulations to help stop global warming. They can't be wrong can they?


15 posted on 11/19/2006 4:39:18 PM PST by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If the Antarctic ice cap is growing then the danger that Einstein was worried about is looming.


16 posted on 11/19/2006 4:40:38 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: KevinDavis

Bump.


17 posted on 11/19/2006 4:42:35 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: RockinRight

The ice age is comeing.


18 posted on 11/19/2006 4:42:40 PM PST by jocko12
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

(The enviro-socialists have never explained why we don't have an ARCTIC ozone hole.)

They're saving that for when their current bs quits convincing their sheep.


19 posted on 11/19/2006 4:49:40 PM PST by dalereed
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To: george76

Good lord,
I didn't realize that he'd gotten that fat.
Someone paint Goodyear on the side of him quick.


20 posted on 11/19/2006 4:52:07 PM PST by BuffaloJack
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