East Antarctic Ice Sheet Thickening, Gaining Mass — Most Growth Since 1985
Per a new study, more than 2200 historical aerial photos of a 2000 km stretch of ice in East Antarctica have been recently uncovered. The rare images reveal what the glaciers in this region looked like in 1937.
Interestingly, the photos show all these East Antarctic glaciers have remained stable, thickened, gained mass, and/or increased in elevation over the last 85 years, with much of the growth and mass gains occurring since 1985.
There has been no warming in this region since the 1950s. This suggests that “global warming” plays a minimal role in ice thickness changes.
“The terrestrial regions of the EAIS respond mainly to atmospheric forcing. Overall, there has been no significant trends in annual or seasonal mean air temperature in East Antarctica since the 1950s, and mean austral summer air temperature (December to February) from stations in all regions rarely exceeds 0 °C (Fig. 4C). This suggests that surface melting have played a minimal role in the documented ice thickness changes overtime.”
Obviously the ice didn’t get the ‘Climate Change’ memo and as a result didn’t start to dissolve away ‘cos it was ‘boiling’.
Naughty ice.
It must be extreme right-wing ice.
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Climate Denier Ice
Naughty ice, made it hard on all the boats trying to catch toothfish, comments off the boats where worst ice seen in years and, we lost so much gear due to the bloody ice. Yet the media all summer where saying that the ice was melting
Their only research is the time ice takes to melt in the whisky!
If it grows much more, they will be able to ski from Invergiggles!
The seas are freezing when, according to the accepted wisdom of climatologists, they were supposed to be boiling.
Not a bad result. They were only out by 100° or so. /////
1st law of research. Always get the raw data. Never accept someone else’s summary / narrative / media / expert opinion unless backed up by (a) the raw data and (b) the logic / science chain.