Only 0.18% Of Antarctica Isn’t Covered By Snow And Ice, Study Finds

dailycaller.com ^ | 8/12/2016 | Michael Bastasch

[rktman]

Antarctica has way fewer rocky outcroppings than scientists previously estimated, according to a new study that found less than half a percent of the South Pole is not covered by snow and ice.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found “a 21,745 km2 total area of rock outcrop, equivalent to 0.18 ± 0.05% of the continent’s land area and 48% of the previous estimate.” Previous estimates put rocky outcroppings at 0.37 percent of the continent.

“This is a significant decrease and highlights an overestimation in the current predictions of rock outcrop extent in Antarctica,” BAS scientists wrote in their new study.

BAS researchers wanted to establish a more accurate baseline to measure how global warming impacts the frozen continent. Unsurprisingly, Antarctica still has tons of snow and only small areas of it aren’t covered with ice and snow.

[rktman]

Hmmm. No doubt the msm would change the title to read: "Only 0.18% Of Antarctica 'IS' Covered By Snow And Ice, Study Finds". And, if some deniers are proven to be correct, the decrease in sun spot activity will make it a whole lot cooler soon. Think Maunder Minimum. But hey, they're just evil deniers who deserve to be prosecuted. Right jill steen?

[ClearCase_guy]

Well ... well ... uummmmmm ... Well ... it used to be 100% snow and ice!! Until you ruined it!

[Red Badger]

IOW, it has MORE SNOW AND ICE THAN THEY COUNTED ON!.................

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This, too, proves anthropogenic climate change.

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[pfflier]

More unsettling science reality that used to be settled science "fact".

Does that make the former scientists retroactive "deniers" now?

[HangnJudge]

So where is the Plateau of Leng?

http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Leng_(Antarctica)

[PROCON]

0.18%?

It's much worse then we thought!

We need to immediately ban civilization, it's for The Children^TM

[rktman]

How about we just ban libs and true believers instead?

[bgill]

[bigbob]

and that’s the part that was melted by the exhaust from Algores private jet!

[JPJones]

Antarctic land AND sea ice is increasing. (Zwally2015),(NASA 2014).

The increase in sea ice WILL have a cooling effect at some time in the future.

[onedoug]

‘Saw a piece on Netflix about life at McMurdo. It would be interesting to go there during the late spring and summer, though no way I’d want to winter down there.

[b4its2late]

[Safetgiver]

That must be why it is 95 degrees here.

[Iron Munro]

BREAKING NEWS: 18% Of Antarctica Has No Ice At All !!!!

Democrats demand large increase in government funding to fight de-ice-ification!

Calls for Climate Deniers to be declared incompetent and face re-education at their own cost.

More at 11:00

[PAR35]

It is settled science that global warming causes cold weather. So send me a big grant.

[napscoordinator]

I seem to recall that much of the United States was covered in ice. No more and we’ve survived!

[rktman]

Well if us deniers are declared nincompoops, I mean incompetent, do we also lose our 2nd amendment rights too? Soooooo confusing.

[stylin19a]

But a 2015 NASA study found Antarctica actually added 82 billion tons of ice a year from 2003 and 2008, directly contradicting data presented by NASA and the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I'm out of popcorn