[DrCaleb]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Tricks Tricks:

And once again, you have nothing.

If you've got something better, don't hold it back on my account!



-J.

He has a study, conducted using satellite measurements.

What do you have to support your position of 'fearmongering'?

[N_Fiddledog]

Surely you do admit though that it is at least interesting how your OP article attempts to frighten us with a story of a melting glacier unlocking the whole of the Antarctic to melt but somehow avoids mentioning the well-known phenomena of under-water volcanoes and below ground-level thermal activity in the area.

Why don't they want to talk about that, one wonders.

[Tricks]

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-J.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3433

[N_Fiddledog]

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-J.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau3433

Yes and the top value of responsibility for global sea rise claimed for Thwaites glacial melt is 4% of about 7-12 inches a century.

Nothing scary is actually happening. Other that a big, cool ice cave, most likely caused by below sea level thermal activity, if that freaks you out.

[Winnipegger]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

That is disturbing. What could possibly have caused it? Surely not all the underwater volcanoes honeycombed through that area.

We've heard for years how the volcano under that glacier could erupt causing the glacier to slip into the ocean, cause sea level to rise 2 feet. It hasn't. Now we learn there's a giant cavern under the glacier. I guess melting the bottom of the glacier didn't cause it to slip into the ocean.

In 2010 a volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted. Coastal cities were not flooded. Don't ask me to pronounce it, copying from a news article it was called "Eyjafjallajökull". Volcanic ash disrupted air travel, but no rise in sea level.

[Tricks]

Winnipegger Winnipegger:

We've heard for years how the volcano under that glacier could erupt causing the glacier to slip into the ocean, cause sea level to rise 2 feet. It hasn't. Now we learn there's a giant cavern under the glacier. I guess melting the bottom of the glacier didn't cause it to slip into the ocean.

Yet. The grounding line is receding. They're worried that if it recedes far enough it will come loose and slip into the ocean.

[N_Fiddledog]

And nobody knows it isn't underground/undersea volcanic activity causing that grounding line to recede.

The OP article claims they don't think this cave could have been there in its present form before three years ago. I've heard there is only about 20 years of Antarctic, satellite, ice data. So if there is a mysterious point before 3 years ago where we don't know anything about that cave and there is no satellite data for ice from 17 years before that nobody could actually know how or when that cave gets formed or for that matter why that grounding line began to recede.