“The recent changes in speed are not due to melt-driven thinning; instead they’re due to the loss of the outer part of the ice shelf,” Joughin said. “The glacier’s speedup…
Tag: Pine Island Glacier
Debunked: New Computer Simulated Pine Island Glacier Doomsday Paper By Rosier et al Ignores Lots Of Science
Die kalte Sonne brings up the question: Why were these earlier studies – many based on observations – ignored by Rosier et al? “Hard to believe they were,” says the…
Claim: Evidence of Antarctic glacier’s tipping point confirmed for first time
He added: “The possibility of Pine Island Glacier entering an unstable retreat has been raised before but this is the first time that this possibility is rigorously established and quantified.
Researcher 'has a problem' with attributing West Antarctic Ice Sheet 'collapse' to human activity
From NASA JPL and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, something that maybe journo-hacktivist Susanne Goldenberg should pay attention to before she writes another screed. Reports that a portion of the West Antarctic…
Claim: atmosphere heats the oceans, melts Antarctic ice shelf
From Penn State Underlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier’s floating ice shelf in Antarctica and…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for September 12th, 2013
Climate models wildly overestimated global warming, study finds Can you rely on the weather forecast? Maybe not, at least when it comes to global warming predictions over short time periods.…
Glacier in Antarctica does what glaciers do
From NASA, who has moved up from “Manhattans” to quarter states as a scale comparison unit: Antarctic Glacier Calves Iceberg One-Fourth Size of Rhode Island This week a European Earth-observing…
Untested claim: increased CO2 helps glacier ice to crack
From the Institute of Physics , something so overreaching I just can’t believe the Institute of Physics would put out a press release on it. Where does one start with…
New ice loss unit – the New Jersey
From the University of Texas at Austin, an ice shelf as big as New Jersey might collapse, if conditions are right. Tipping points and all that. I suspect this gives…
Crack in the Antarctic!
From the University of Texas at Austin, a press release to tell us the ice shelves in the Antarctic peninsula are losing their grip and cracking a bit. That could…
Hansen: "Humans have overwhelmed the natural, slow changes that occur on geologic timescales"
From NASA Goddard/GISS: same-o, same-o Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes New research into the Earth’s paleoclimate history by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E.…
RealClimate's Steig: Pacific SST's influencing Antarctic melt, no link to human causes demonstrated
WUWT readers may recall the Nature cover with this picture of Antarctica at left, followed by the subsequent falsification of the Antarctic warming claims made by Steig et al using…
NASA on the Antarctic Crack
PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE – After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission…
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