Re: (WT) ² Du Jour -- Antarctic ice sheet losing mass
b*o*n*z*o
Watch out for a plague of (WT) � during the coming weeks as we approach a
new international convention on economic suicide.
It is shorthand for Worse Than Was Thought.
Suddenly, it is urgent. We have only ten years to save the shellfish.
Strange how such things always become urgent just before one of these
international jollies.
No doubt infidels will come up with various quibbles, such as the dreaded
gas being less soluble in the supposedly warming waters or the negligible
proportion of it that is being produced by humans or the relatively
smallness of the change in the partial pressure of said terror gas.
More to come, no doubt!
Warmest Regards
B0n oz
"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville
"enigma" <enigm...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Antarctic ice sheet losing mass
>
> Posted 43 minutes ago
> Updated 25 minutes ago
> Researchers found the icesheet is losing more ice than it is gaining.
>
> Researchers found the icesheet is losing more ice than it is gaining.
> (ABC News: Peter Curtis)
>
> A new study has found the east Antarctic iceshelf, which sits behind
> Australia's Casey Station, has lost billions of tonnes of ice in the
> past three years.
>
> Researchers from the University of Texas have been studying the ocean-
> icesheet interaction in Antarctica for the past seven years.
>
> They have found that since 2006, the east Antarctic icesheet is losing
> more ice than it is gaining.
>
> The majority of the loss is in coastal regions and is estimated at 57
> billion tonnes a year.
>
> The Australian Antarctic Division's Roland Warner says the study
> confirms Antarctica is contributing to a rise in global sea levels.
>
> "This is confirming the sorts of things that one would expect in a
> warming world and the fact that this Antarctic system is not in some
> exact equilibrium at the moment, is in fact losing ice into the ocean,
> is an indication that things are changing," he said.
>
> "That's contributing to half a millimetre of sea level rise per year."
>
> It is estimated that sea levels are rising a total of three
> millimetres a year.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/23/2750931.htm