The Ross Ice Shelf retreated 30 miles before 1932. It has nothing to do with CO2
21 July 1932
“SOME great world change is taking place on the Antarctic Continent. Its glaciers are shrinking. Commander L.A. Bernacchi, who visited the South Polar land 30 years ago, says that the Great Ice Barrier which fronts the continent with a wall of ice for 250 miles has receded at least 30 miles since it was first seen and surveyed. Sir James Ross, who went out on the earliest Antarctic expedition of the nineteenth century, and those who fol lowed him, left clear descriptions of this tremendous ice frontage and its position. It was a cliff 150ft. high and 1000ft. thick. But now it appears to be continuing its century-long process of shrinking; and that process may have been going on for centuries.“
As usual, climate experts are lying about it, like they do about everything else.
Research casts alarming light on decline of West Antarctic glaciers – The Washington Post
Not sure if it matters. I just learned that the figures of 69 gigatons or 83 gigatons or whatever they say of ice melt that we commonly hear from the alarmists mean nothing when we learn (and they never tell anybody) that Antarctica has 29 million gigatons of ice.
69 out of 29,000,000?
This one says 27 million gigatons:
http://www.willstegerfoundation.org/arcticantarctic-resources/antarctic-resources/item/113-how-much-ice-is-on-antarctica
Thanks for the arithmetic lesson. In other words the so-called scientists want us to believe that their gravity sensing Tom & Jerry, GRACE satellites can measure the Change in “G” with an accuracy of 0.0002%.
That’s the one point I reckon every free thinking quantity surveyor in the world would pillory NASA on. The margin of error for that quantity calculation would exceed the delta change by many orders of magnitude.
My understanding is that first they take the reading from the satellites then they have to stick a finger in the air and compensate for isostatic rebound and this correction is of the same order of magnitude as the initial reading.
Yea, there was a paper a while back that was whining about something like 160 megatons of freshwater melt and when I looked through the paper the error bars were +/- 240 megatons or so (buried in a footnote if I remember correctly.) But remember that an increase of 3 percent of a trace gas that’s less than a third of a percent of the atmosphere is responsible for these “massive” events.
They have no sense of scale and certainly no shame.
Wikipedia says that if you add the ice gain in East Antarctica every year and subtract the ice melt from West Antarctica, you get a NET GAIN of 33 Gigatons. And Wikipedia is an alarmist site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Ice_mass_and_global_sea_level
A net gain of 33 gigatons when it has 27,000,000 gigatons, and they are saying the poles are melting?
This is a new form of stupidity. This is projectile stupidity.
Climate Scientists wouldn’t know a significant digit if it bit them on the nose!
They would not know it if it bit them on the significant digit.
And something else that isn’t mentioned when talking about ice melt, but the same patterns of gravitational anomalies that are so indicative of melting ice in the Antarctic are the same ones that show up in every other volcanic area…and the areas in the Antarctic that they are so concerned about are also the most geothermally active areas. So unless Hawaii is the result of melted ice, what they are detecting is not melt, but rather the underlying geothermal activity.
CO2 is really scaring. See all those scentists that have lost all memory and dont bother to find it either. That’s why they say it is worse than ever. Ever was last year.
But, but, but … we’re talking about Eric Rignot’s pension plan here.
More of current data.
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/files/2013/12/PressConfMlynczakFinal.pdf
It looks to me, that as we approach the SH summer solstice, that the greater part of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica is very, very cold. So much for the NCDC/NOAA “hottest year evah.”
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/navo/antarcsstnowcast.gif