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.

[SeekAndFind]

Does anybody notice that we don't hear much from Nobel Prize winner Al Gore any longer?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Repeat after me — gains in Antarctic ice are evidence of Global Warming. You are getting sleepy, very sleepy. Global Warming causes gains in Antarctic ice.

[SeekAndFind]

When there is a gain in ice, it’s global warming, when there’s a decrease in ice, it’s global warming, when there’s no change, it’s still global warming.

As per Angela Merkel, refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East is the result of global warming. Terrorism is caused by global warming.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.

[al_c]

It’s gaining ice because of global warming. Good grief - don’t you watch movies? ;-)

[SeekAndFind]

When there is a gain in ice, it’s global warming, when there’s a decrease in ice, it’s global warming, when there’s no change, it’s still global warming.

As per Angela Merkel, refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East is the result of global warming. Terrorism is caused by global warming.

A theory that explains everything, explains nothing.

[Objective Scrutator]

Liberal response: “B-b-but it’s called climate change, not global warming, so we’re always right. Why won’t you conservatives just accept totalitarianism so that we don’t have to construct these elaborate mythologies? “

[notdownwidems]

Does anybody notice that we don't hear much from Nobel Prize winner Al Gore any longer?

"Celebrities...is there anything they don't know?" - Homer Simpson

[A Navy Vet]

"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.

Okay. They need "better tools" to show this study of increased ice in Antarctica works better into their melting models. And then they say "melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica" is the cause of sea levels rising. WTF?

Someone somewhere in all of the planet please tell me where sea levels have risen. C'mon sea-level peoples, tell me where you have seen the rise. Hey, Floridans, you should know...please tell me.

I've kinda scoffed at those who say "global warming" is a religion, but after reading the above I'm starting to think it IS a Gaia based religion behind this contradicting thesis.

Is it just us who keep track of Sun spots and noticed that there has been NO increase in global temps for some 15 years along with the same cycle of Sun spots? Geeze, I'm not a solar physicist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn and know better. Maybe our so-called climatologists should get a room. This getting beyond absurd. They can't even keep their story straight.

[ForYourChildren]

But this guy, and he has a Nobel Prize for being an expert on Global Warming, ....

Oh... who to believe...

[Duckdog]

Those Noble Prizes don’t seem worth a damn these days.

[morphing libertarian]

Bkmrk

[Jim from C-Town]

Yeah, that's it! The ice has spread out, but it has gotten much shorter. That's the ticket!

[corlorde]

This admission must really be painful for the moonbats:

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."

The whole, "the entire east coast will be under water soon, unless we invest trillions into "green energy!" meme is in serious jeopardy.

[fatnotlazy]

It’s 75 degrees on November 3 here in western Pennsylvania. My kind of climate change. Who really cares about what’s going on in the Arctic and Antarctic except for the liberal loons.

[A Navy Vet]

"The entire North polarized [what is polarized?] cap will disappear in 5 years." Al Gore; 2008.

Okay. 2008 plus 5 years is 2013. Gee, here we are in 2015 and this article says that ice is building in the Antarctica, but yet the sea is rising. Then there is the ice in the Arctic that was to disappear and cause all the wittle polar bears to drown. Guess what? Last year saw one of the largest ice sheets ever in the Arctic ocean.

The above needs to be repeated every day for what I call, "The Sun Spot Deniers" OR "Planet Change Deniers".

As we speak, isn't Opeaser at some Global Change meeting in Paris? Yup, they're going to heal the World if it's the last thing they do. Hang on to your wallets. And where is Albert Gore? When's the last time we heard from Opeaser's fellow Nobel Laureate? Pfft.

[TigersEye]

• When the temperature goes up - bacon!
• When the temperature goes down - bacon!
• When the temperature stays the same - bacon!

You can't tell me that my theory means nothing.

It means BACON!!!

[Bubba_Leroy]

Meanwhile, Arctic Has Gained Hundreds Of Miles Of Ice The Last Three Years

Maybe the oceans are rising because of all the tears being shed by the Global Warming fanatics.

[PhilDragoo]

[butlerweave]

All that ice will make us fall out of the galaxy

[A Navy Vet]

Your theory is as good as the anyone's.

I would add Beef in alphabetical order: Back Ribs, Chuck Roast, Filet Mignon, Flank Steak, Prime Rib, Ribeye, Sirloin, T-bone, Tenderloin, Top Round, Tri-tip, plus some ground round on garlic toast with cheese.

You Vegans can kiss my carnivorous tissue-eating butt. You're so wrapped up in your "no harm to animals" ideology that you don't even realize what your canine teeth are for. You're so involved in evolution, but deny your own evolution to be meat eaters.

You hippies suck and have always been hypocrites and always will be. I know because I grew up in the 60's and experienced your dumbass ideology first hand. Ever wonder why your hippie communes failed? That's a different topic for another thread.