BREAKING: Antarctica WORLD DOOM!!!

As seen on Discovery Miami goes first

Worst attempt of doom ever.

What do you think would happen if a several meter high tsunami went around the world?

The only melting ice in Antarctica is in the Antarctic peninsula right below South America. The rest of Antarctica is frozen over all year with temperatures below zero winter and summer. Ice extent and Ice mass have been increasing since measurements were first made. Sorry to disillusion the doomers out there, but there is no danger Antarctica will melt. See the most recent paper on Antarctic ice mass here.
[link to wattsupwiththat.com]

Well when it hit the US coast we would translate meters into feet.

ugh, read the article a little more thoroughly

Last Edited by Veresanctus on 05/10/2012 04:49 PM

Hahaha

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Enormous Antarctic Crack

[link to news.discovery.com]

LOL!!! I CONCUR!! THIS IS TRUE!! I RUV AMERICARHH!!

It's coming at us from all sides!

The methane part of this is pretty alarming,...something we were warned about decades ago, yet, rarely since. It's one of those ever-lingering scenarios that doesn't get discussed. Even in the following articles:


EMBARGOED BY NATURE
Wednesday, April 25, 2012


Increased Antarctic Ice Loss by Warm Ocean Currents

New study coauthored by a Scripps researcher differentiates the causes of thinning ice shelves

Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego



"In most places in Antarctica, we can't explain the ice-shelf thinning through melting of snow at the surface, so it has to be driven by warm ocean currents melting them from below" said Pritchard.

Ice shelves are where the ice sheet meets the ocean, and basal melting from ice shelves in itself is not unusual - it is a standard 'background' process for the Antarctic ice sheet to lose some of the mass it gains through snowfall so that it remains more or less in balance. The other way ice shelves lose mass is by iceberg calving. This study has confirmed that, under some ice shelves, basal melting is large enough that they are currently thinning, sometimes up to several meters per year.

The study has also shown that when an ice shelf is thinning, the inland glaciers feeding it are also losing ice into the ocean, which will contribute to sea-level rise.

"We've looked all around the Antarctic coast and we see a clear pattern: in all the cases where ice shelves are being melted by the ocean, the inland glaciers are speeding up. It's this glacier acceleration that's responsible for most of the increase in mass loss from the continent and this is contributing to sea-level rise" said Pritchard.


"In the last decade or so we have seen some inland glaciers accelerate and thin dramatically when an ice shelf completely disappears," said Fricker, an associate professor in Scripps' Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. "In this study we also see that glaciers are losing mass to the ocean even while the ice shelves are still there, but getting thinner. This suggests that ice loss is very sensitive to quite small changes in the ocean circulation around Antarctica."

[link to scrippsnews.ucsd.edu]

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Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2012) —

"An international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has established that warm ocean currents are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica. New techniques have been used to differentiate, for the first time, between the two known causes of melting ice shelves -- warm ocean currents attacking the underside, and warm air melting from above. This finding brings scientists a step closer to providing reliable projections of future sea-level rise..

"We've looked all around the Antarctic coast and we see a clear pattern: in all the cases where ice shelves are being melted by the ocean, the inland glaciers are speeding up. It's this glacier acceleration that's responsible for most of the increase in ice loss from the continent and this is contributing to sea-level rise.
"What's really interesting is just how sensitive these glaciers seem to be. Some ice shelves are thinning by a few metres a year and, in response, the glaciers drain billions of tons of ice into the sea. This supports the idea that ice shelves are important in slowing down the glaciers that feed them, controlling the loss of ice from the Antarctic ice sheet. It means that we can lose an awful lot of ice to the sea without ever having summers warm enough to make the snow on top of the glaciers melt -- the oceans can do all the work from below.

"But this does raise the question of why this is happening now. We think that it's linked to changes in wind patterns. Studies have shown that Antarctic winds have changed because of changes in climate, and that this has affected the strength and direction of ocean currents. As a result warm water is funneled beneath the floating ice. These studies and our new results therefore suggest that Antarctica's glaciers are responding rapidly to a changing climate."


[link to www.sciencedaily.com]
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Even considering the above articles, the general consensus is that it could be 4 or 5 decades before these portions break off.

That's why I am most concerned about methane. I believe there's enough for an ELE.

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Selling paranoia is getting really old.

From the article:

The only saving grace is that losing the ice over this new basin would only raise sea level by a small percentage of the several meters that would result if the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilized.

Yep

Doesn't change the fact that Antarctica isn't losing mass. That's what would cause sea level rise, and it isn't happening.

Yep?

reading comprehension fail as it throws your doom out the window.

I was speaking about the article, you know, the part about the "West Antarctic Ice Sheet". I believe the whole thing is at risk

Last Edited by Veresanctus on 05/10/2012 07:52 PM