Hemmed in Antarctic Glaciers Ready to Break Loose

[calamity]

Buckle up folks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/

Two Antarctic glaciers that have long kept scientists awake at night are breaking free from the restraints that have hemmed them in, increasing the threat of large-scale sea-level rise.

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“The stresses that slow down the glacier, they are no longer in place, so the glacier is speeding up,” said Stef Lhermitte, a satellite expert at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands who led the new research along with colleagues from NASA and other research institutions in France, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands.

While many of the images have been seen before, the new analysis suggests that they are a sign of further disintegration to come.

“We already knew that these were glaciers that might matter in the future, but these images to me indicate that these ice shelves are in a very bad state,” Lhermitte said.

Maybe some of that "global cooling" will come along to save all those living by the sea shore.

 

[Jack Hays]

Buckle up folks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/



Maybe some of that "global cooling" will come along to save all those living by the sea shore.

Pine Island and Thwaites are centers of volcanic activity.

West Antarctica: more evidence it was the volcanoes that melted the ice


As I’ve repeatedly posted this year, there is a strange coincidence between geothermal activity and warming in Antarctica. We are still discovering volcanoes underwater, so we can’t pretend we have accurate data on their contribution in joules or the trends in that. On Antarctica almost all the headlines of doom and collapse come from West Antarctic peninsula or the ice sheet nearby which also happen to be over the West Antarctic Rift System. Most other places in and around Antarctica are cooling or staying the same, and sea ice is hitting record levels. “Must be CO2 then.” ; -)
Damiani et al looked at the crustal thickness beneath Thwaites Glacier, and finds it is quite thin, like that beneath the Pine Island Glacier. The researchers conclude that it is likely there is a major volcanic dome in Marie Byrd Land.[1]
Spot any media mention of the possibility that hot lava might be to blame instead of your SUV.[2] Good little propaganda writers produce plenty of gloom and doom headlines of the imminent collapse of ice-sheets. Where are the journalists? For that matter — which climate scientist tries to make sure journalists present an accurate report? . . .

 

[Lord of Planar]

Buckle up folks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...ers-breaking-antarctica-pine-island-thwaites/



Maybe some of that "global cooling" will come along to save all those living by the sea shore.

This is normal.

Why do you guys freak out every time this natural occurrence happens?

It is a natural cycle of all ice shelves. The grow out, since they are the ice from glacier flows. Once they get so large, they break up. The cycle starts over.

Perfectly natural.

 

[calamity]

This is normal.

Why do you guys freak out every time this natural occurrence happens?

It is a natural cycle of all ice shelves. The grow out, since they are the ice from glacier flows. Once they get so large, they break up. The cycle starts over.

Perfectly natural.

Nothing happening with climate today, from crazy fires up and down the West coast to glaciers melting faster than an ice cube on a stripper's ass is normal.

 

[Jack Hays]

Nothing happening with climate today, from crazy fires up and down the West coast to glaciers melting faster than an ice cube on a stripper's ass is normal.

Sorry, but the data don't support your claim.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Nothing happening with climate today, from crazy fires up and down the West coast to glaciers melting faster than an ice cube on a stripper's ass is normal.

LOL...

People have actually been arrested for arson here in Oregon. Only the high winds were uncommon. We periodically get those strong winds. AGW is unlikely the cause, as it is the periodic norm.

We need to stop catch and release of criminals:

Suspect Starts Six More Brush Fires, Faces Additional Charges

 

[Lord of Planar]

Arson probe opened into deadly Oregon wildfire - police chief

Man arrested, charged with arson in connection with southern Oregon fire

There are even more instances.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Sorry, but the data don't support your claim.

I'll bet he is real familiar with a strippers ass though!

 

[calamity]

Sorry, but the data don't support your claim.

Sorry, but you are always wrong.

 

[Lord of Planar]

Here's two more:

Austin Leroy Wallace Arrested

Kenneth Samples Arrested

I wonder how many more Antifa members, or whoever they are, started fires and didn't get caught?