A major cause of Antartic Ice Melts

[pantheory]

As a result of global warming funding, an ancient rocky structure related to a major newly discovered geologic fault line and zone has been discovered at the heart of the Ross ice shelf in Eastern Antarctica.  This discovery will help geologists determine where ice will melt and where it will stay frozen. The additional ice melting and possible sea rise as a result of this new-found fault and related ice fractures and splitting, would be unrelated to any global warming. But for global warming estimates an adjustment would need to be made to any possible ice loss in this area thought to be the result of global warming. Whether this newly found fault line and zone is more active now than it was in known geologic history is still unknown.  This discovery is related to, but separate from the well-known volcanic activity under Antarctica. There is still debate as to whether Antarctica is gaining, losing, or having about the same amount of ice over the recent decades as more accurate measurements are made. This can relate to the global warming debate when some highly respected scientists of NASA are predicting global cooling in the coming decades instead.

 

"According to new research published May 27 in the journal Nature Geo-science, this boundary protects the ice shelf's grounding line, the point at which it is thick enough to extend all the way to the sea floor. The geology created by the boundary keeps warm, melt-promoting ocean water away from that part of the shelf. But the ocean circulation driven by that same geology drives intense summer melt along the shelf's easterly edge."

 

"We could see that (this) geological boundary was making the seafloor on the East Antarctic side much deeper than the West, and that affects the way the ocean water circulates under the ice shelf," study leader Kirsty Tinto, a research scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, said in a statement" concerning the related study,  paper, and photos. Antarctica: The Ice-Covered Bottom of the World]

 

https://www.livescience.com/65588-ancient-rocky-structure-beneath-antarctica.html

 

https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/amidst-global-warming-hysteria-nasa-expects-global-cooling-SJDpCv3V4EqKSOY11A378Q/

 

https://cornwallalliance.org/2019/02/climate-reality-forces-doomsday-alarmists-to-restructure-warming-narrative/

 

 

[Justus]

I would have guessed the major cause of Antarctic  ice melting was due to the increase in the Penguin population.

 

[you know, the more there be, the more that pee.]  

 

7 hours ago, pantheory said:

This discovery will help geologists determine where ice will melt and where it will stay frozen.

 

Didn't they discover the thermometer back in the ancient days?  I heard it is a scientific fact that thermometers aren't natural. 

[pantheory]

The theromet

On 6/1/2019 at 11:14 PM, Justus said:

I would have guessed the major cause of Antarctic  ice melting was due to the increase in the Penguin population.

 

[you know, the more there be, the more that pee.]  

 

 

Didn't they discover the thermometer back in the ancient days?  I heard it is a scientific fact that thermometers aren't natural. 

 

Don't know much about a Penguin's body temperature or excretions but I do know that most Penguins live in Antarctica. As to thermometers, they were invented in the early 1700's in the middle of the little ice age in western Europe. This new invention probably came in handy during the winters, for those that could afford them, and for their servants who had the decision making task of when to stoke the fires.