‘Fundamentally unstable’: Scientists confirm fears on E. Antarctica’s biggest glacier

[Blackleaf]

Note to self: add Greenland as possible travel destination.

I've often fancied going there. I fancy visiting cold, snowy places with 24 hours a day darkness in winter and where the people throw away whale bones in the same way we throw away chicken bones and they speak some alien, unintelligible language (in this case Greenlandic).

 

[pgs]

A lot of could's in that article but not many postitives .

 

[Walter]

‘Fundamentally unstable’: Scientists confirm fears on E. Antarctica’s biggest glacier

Oh, no!

 

[Blackleaf]

What gets me is the guy doing the voiceover as Karl Pilkington's "An Idiot Abroad 2" comes on and he's saying some of the fun things to do before you die. One of them is "See the glaciers before they melt." And it always makes me think something like "Come on, mate, the glaciers aren't melting. They'll still be here, fine and dandy, centuries from now. They are not going to disappear during Karl Pilkington's lifetime. There's nothing wrong with the glaciers. We shouldn't be rushing out to see them before they all disappear."

 

[Cliffy]

Earth's Relentless Warming Just Hit a Terrible New Threshold

The number of climate records broken in the last few years is stunning. But here's a new measure of misery: Not only did we just experience the hottest April in 137 years of record keeping, but it was the 12th consecutive month to set a new record.
It's been relentless. May 2015 was the hottest May in records dating back to 1880. That was followed by the hottest June. Then came a record July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March—and, we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday—the hottest April. In an age of rising temperatures, monthly heat records have become all too common. Still, a string of 12 of them is without precedent.
Perhaps even more remarkable is the magnitude of the new records. The extremes of recent months are such that we're only four months into 2016 and already there's a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will be the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.



Earth's Relentless Warming Just Hit a Terrible New Threshold - Bloomberg


Climate Change - Bloomberg QuickTake

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Its been plenty cool over in these parts.

 

[Walter]

Earth's Relentless Warming Just Hit a Terrible New Threshold

The number of climate records broken in the last few years is stunning. But here's a new measure of misery: Not only did we just experience the hottest April in 137 years of record keeping, but it was the 12th consecutive month to set a new record.
It's been relentless. May 2015 was the hottest May in records dating back to 1880. That was followed by the hottest June. Then came a record July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March—and, we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday—the hottest April. In an age of rising temperatures, monthly heat records have become all too common. Still, a string of 12 of them is without precedent.
Perhaps even more remarkable is the magnitude of the new records. The extremes of recent months are such that we're only four months into 2016 and already there's a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will be the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.



Earth's Relentless Warming Just Hit a Terrible New Threshold - Bloomberg


Climate Change - Bloomberg QuickTake

Piffle.

 

[darkbeaver]

‘Fundamentally unstable’: Scientists confirm fears on E. Antarctica’s biggest glacier

The Totten Glacier holds back more ice than any other in East Antarctica, which is itself the biggest ice mass in the world by far. Totten, which lies due south of Western Australia, currently reaches the ocean in the form of a floating shelf of ice that’s 90 miles by 22 miles in area. But the entire region, or what scientists call a “catchment,” that could someday flow into the sea in this area is over 200,000 square miles in size — bigger than California.

Moreover, in some areas that ice is close to 2.5 miles thick, with over a mile of that vertical extent reaching below the surface of the ocean. It’s the very definition of vast.

Warmer waters in this area could, therefore, ultimately be even more damaging than what’s happening in West Antarctica — and the total amount of ice that could someday be lost would raise sea levels by as much as 13 feet.

“This is not the first part of East Antarctica that’s likely to show a multi-meter response to climate change,” said Alan Aitken, the new study’s lead author and a researcher with the University of Western Australia in Perth. “But it might be the biggest in the end, because it’s continually unstable as you go towards the interior of the continent.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rries-about-east-antarcticas-biggest-glacier/

Glaciers break off at the sea end because of upstream accumulations of ice. What in fukk do you think pushes rivers into the sea. They flow to the sea, it's called glacial evolution. I will mail you a clue next tuesday.

 

[Cliffy]

Piffle.

I realize facts are not your strong suit Wally. But facts is facts and your not believing in them doesn't change a thing.

 

[darkbeaver]

Earth's Relentless Warming Just Hit a Terrible New Threshold

The number of climate records broken in the last few years is stunning. But here's a new measure of misery: Not only did we just experience the hottest April in 137 years of record keeping, but it was the 12th consecutive month to set a new record.
It's been relentless. May 2015 was the hottest May in records dating back to 1880. That was followed by the hottest June. Then came a record July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March—and, we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday—the hottest April. In an age of rising temperatures, monthly heat records have become all too common. Still, a string of 12 of them is without precedent.
Perhaps even more remarkable is the magnitude of the new records. The extremes of recent months are such that we're only four months into 2016 and already there's a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will be the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Unrecorded climate records (BILLIONS OF YEARS) (WE ARE TOLD) versus recorded climate records= STATISTICAL INSIGNIFIGANCE, YOU,VE BEEN STUNNED. BY GOOBLEDIGOOP! MANUFACTURED MUSH. SAND PANCAKES,

Scientists fear loosing thier income if they don't toe the establish line.

 

[Curious Cdn]

t. As far as I know Greenland is still there and has not become victim to some of the unspeakable terrors that roam the vast, untamed wilderness of heathen barbarians outside the EU's civilising, protecting borders.
...but you're not really sure. Hear about Greenland a lot now, do you?