Friday, May 30, 2014

Might this be even a teensy little bit relevant?

Might this be even a teensy little bit relevant?  Most likely you've seen the news reports talking about the “collapse” of the Antarctic ice sheets.  There are several aspects of this, however, that are not so widely reported.  Why?  Well, one suspects its because they don't actually support the global warmist narrative:
  • Only a relatively small part of the Antarctic ice sheet is “collapsing”  – in the western Antarctic, where about 15% of all the ice in Antarctica is.  The rest of Antarctica's ice sheets are growing at the highest rate ever recorded.
  • The word choice (“collapse”) implies something happening swiftly.  In fact, the ice sheet's reduction will occur over a 200 to 1,000 year period – if it continues at all.
  • The area where the “collapse” is occurring just happens to be an area full of active volcanoes – some of which are known to be erupting (see map at upper right).  The known effect of such an under-ice eruption is to melt the water underneath the glacier, leading to lower friction, higher glacial movement rates, and (wait for it!) – glacial collapse.
Jo Nova is all over the last bullet, which I haven't been able to find in any recent report about the collapsing glaciers – not even in the science rags I read.  However, it was present in several science articles over the past couple of years (Jo links to several such references)

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