Is Global Warming a Hoax?

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  Julian Scott of the Bristish Antarctic Survey, who just returned from Antarctica, told the BBC: "This is a very important glacier; it's putting more ice into the sea than any other glacier in Antarctica."

  "It's a couple of kilometres thick, its 30km wide and it's moving at 3.5km per year, so it's putting a lot of ice into the ocean," said Scott."

  Throughout the 1990s, according to satellite measurements, the glacier was accelerating by around 1% a year. Scott's sensational finding this season is that it now seems to have accelerated by 7% in a single season, sending more and more ice into the ocean.

  "The reason does not seem to be warming in the surrounding air."

  "One possible culprit could be a deep ocean current that is channelled onto the continental shelf close to the mouth of the glacier. There is not much sea ice to protect it from the warm water, which seems to be undercutting the ice and lubricating its flow."

  "Much higher up the course of the glacier there is evidence of a volcano that erupted through the ice about 2,000 years ago and the whole region could be volcanically active, releasing geothermal heat to melt the base of the ice and help its slide towards the sea."

  "That might take decades or a century, but neighbouring glaciers are accelerating too and if the entire region were to lose its ice, the sea would rise by 1.5m worldwide."
  

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  • You're an imbisolEightyDeuce
  • Ohh really, so the data that exists just doesn't fit your idealogy, I suppose...?
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  • the cherry picking you are doing? doesnt count as data chief.spifflink

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