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Only 0.18% Of Antarctica Isn’t Covered By Snow And Ice, Study Finds
dailycaller.com ^
| 8/12/2016
| Michael Bastasch
Posted on 08/12/2016 9:32:03 AM PDT by 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 continents 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 arent covered with ice and snow.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: coldstuff; ecowankers; gangrn
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?
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:32:03 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Well ... well ... uummmmmm ... Well ... it used to be 100% snow and ice!! Until you ruined it!
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:36:48 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(“Islam has nothing to do with this.”)
To: rktman
IOW, it has MORE SNOW AND ICE THAN THEY COUNTED ON!.................
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:36:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
To: rktman
This, too, proves anthropogenic climate change.
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:37:03 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: rktman
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:38:13 AM PDT
by
KSCITYBOY
To: rktman
More unsettling science reality that used to be settled science "fact".
Does that make the former scientists retroactive "deniers" now?
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:40:03 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: rktman
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:47:14 AM PDT
by
HangnJudge
(Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
To: rktman
0.18%?
It's much worse then we thought!
We need to immediately ban civilization, it's for The ChildrenTM
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:50:16 AM PDT
by
PROCON
("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
To: PROCON
How about we just ban libs and true believers instead?
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posted on
08/12/2016 9:53:52 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:03:49 AM PDT
by
bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
To: rktman
and that’s the part that was melted by the exhaust from Algores private jet!
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:04:34 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
To: rktman
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.
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:08:58 AM PDT
by
JPJones
( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
To: rktman
‘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.
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:14:54 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: rktman
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:15:52 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: b4its2late
That must be why it is 95 degrees here.
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:17:21 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam looks perversion look genteel.)
To: rktman
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
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:40:08 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: rktman
It is settled science that global warming causes cold weather. So send me a big grant.
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:43:49 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: bgill
I seem to recall that much of the United States was covered in ice. No more and we’ve survived!
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:55:20 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
To: Iron Munro
Well if us deniers are declared nincompoops, I mean incompetent, do we also lose our 2nd amendment rights too? Soooooo confusing.
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posted on
08/12/2016 10:59:08 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
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
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