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Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses
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Quote:A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
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(10-20-2019 10:26 PM)BEARCATDALE Wrote:  NASA Study

Quote:A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

Seriously, it is likely due to a wobble in the rotation of the Earth that has recently developed and which NASA is watching carefully because it is creating a shift of about 1 degree in True North per year to the East, which has negated a natural much smaller drift to the West which had been happening until a few years ago. They think the wobble might be due to the damming of water in India which they have increased due to population needs coupled with all of he concrete the Chinese have poured (more in 10 years than the US poured in the last century) to build cities up, and create artificial islands to extend territorial waters.

The latter is placing the Arctic Ice into retreat and the Antarctic Ice into advance. The concerning part is that if unchecked it could slowly put much of the U.S. into desertification. And it doesn't have a damned thing to do with Global warming or carbon footprint, or even greenhouse gases, just our angle to the Sun.

In laymen's terms we are out of balance and anyone who has put a small piece of led on a tire to keep it from vibrating knows how anything in constant rotation has to remain in balance. The earth did that quite naturally with tides, tectonic plate shift, and erosion and accretion before man truly started to alter the weight distribution through engineering. When my wife and I discussed it we did get a laugh out of the old query, "If everyone one in China stood a stool 2 feet high and they all jumped down at the same time would that create enough force to knock the Earth off of its axis?" Well maybe it would if they all jumped down of freshly poured concrete patios!
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