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A recent study by NASA seems to contradict some of the currently accepted knowledge about global warming and glaciers. It found that increased ice melting in Antarctica is offset by increased snowfall, meaning that the continent's glaciers are posting a net gain in mass, and are not contributing to rising sea levels.
Contrary to some sensationalist headlines about the "end of global warming", the study's authors urged caution.
"We're essentially in agreement with other studies that show an increase in ice discharge," in other parts of the continent, [Jay] Zwally said.
"Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica; there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas," he explained in a NASA announcement.
Editors Note: As best as I can tell, this is the NASA study referenced in the article above. Note that it is from October, 2014.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @11:24PM
And how can I possibly have a fever if my feet are cold?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mmcmonster on Tuesday November 03 2015, @11:44PM
Or as Colbert said, 'I just had lunch. I declare that global famine has been eradicated!'
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 04 2015, @01:27AM
C'mon, AC! Learn from the masters! Just look at frojack's post above. It is a thing of beauty.
First, do NOT use terms like "myth", "fraud", "hoax", or "lie". If you do, everyone will know you are a climate denier and stop reading.
Instead, just mildly suggest that the source for the article is "odd". Then you will notice that frojack fails to find the source study, and quotes something about when it was received at ingentaconnect, which he insinuates is the full text of the study. Brilliant!
But this now allows the topic to be shifted to another study, and for fro to introduce "the controversy". So smooth I almost cried. And then we can quote a climatologist (not some wacko) who was not involved in a study, to say something about how there is some sort of "disconnect". Wow, I am in awe!
Finally, the shift to Greenland, a polar opposite, literally, of the original topic, and a massive earth-moving example of changing the subject, but even better, goes into space! Some other data was wrong because of optics on satellites! So the data about global warming must be questionable, as well.
See, this is how it is done. Never address the issue of global warming head on, you do not have to! All climate change deniers have to do to win is to introduce uncertainty in the minds of the public, to get them to not trust those egg-headed scientists who are probably set to get rich off of alternative energy and so have a clear conflict of interest . . . . oops! I am doing it myself, aren't I? And after frojack's fine example. Let this be a lesson: being an Anthropogenic Global Warming Denier is not easy!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @03:55AM
If it's not easy, you can bet it's the right course of action!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 04 2015, @05:03AM
Leaving a room by running at full speed toward a solid wall is also difficult. (Mandatory Reference" "Men Who Stare at Goats", 2009, dir. Grant Heslov) Probably not the right action.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 04 2015, @06:09AM
It COULD be the right action.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 04 2015, @07:57AM
And it could NOT be the right action, since it requires such finely honed deception in order to be possible at all.