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Message started by lee on Aug 20th, 2021 at 12:28pm

Title: Antarctic in the news
Post by lee on Aug 20th, 2021 at 12:28pm
Ice losses from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica are currently responsible for roughly four percent of the global sea-level rise. This figure could increase, since virtually no another ice stream in the Antarctic is changing as dramatically as the massive Thwaites Glacier. Until recently, experts attributed these changes to climate change and the fact that the glacier rests on the seafloor in many places, and as such comes into contact with warm water masses. But there is also a third, and until now one of the most difficult to constrain, influencing factors. In a new study, German and British researchers have shown that there is a conspicuously large amount of heat from Earth’s interior beneath the ice, which has likely affected the sliding behaviour of the ice masses for millions of years. This substantial geothermal heat flow, in turn, are due to the fact that the glacier lies in a tectonic trench, where the Earth’s crust is significantly thinner than it is e.g. in neighbouring East Antarctica. The new study was published today in the Nature online journal Communications Earth & Environment.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/925529

Title: Re: Antarctic in the news
Post by Belgarion on Aug 20th, 2021 at 12:41pm
Oh dear! This will not suit the alarmist narrative at all. They also totally ignored another recent  explanation for increased glacial break up in the Antarctic..Glaciers were in fact increasing in size and pushing further out to sea, resulting in increased iceberg formation as they collapsed under their increased mass.

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