A recent study conducted by NASA
reveals that the mass gains of Antarctic ice sheet are enough to outweigh the
increasing losses in the region's diminishing glaciers.
Woops.
The new data offers previously
unrecorded gains in Antarctica, scientists say, but it challenges the
conclusions of other reports such as the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) study. The IPCC's earlier report said that the continent
is continuously losing land ice.
Must be a bad report.
However, [lead researcher Jay] Zwally
also mentioned that if the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise credited
to Antarctica in the IPCC report did not come from the continent, there must be
some other factor to sea level rise that is not accounted for.
Well, we now know that the IPCC report cannot be relied
upon. Maybe they measured the sea-level
change incorrectly as well.
But trust them – it will all come true in a few decades:
Zwally believes that it will only
take a few more decades for the accumulation of ice to reverse in numbers.
Too bad Mother Nature is not fully conforming to the wishes
of this settled science.
Look, the science is settled I'm buying land in Canada's great frozen north for future farming and moving away from our low level coasts! says no one.
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