Pete Tar
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The release of a 'new' report has conservative outlets claiming it supersedes 'previous' reports claiming ice loss in Antartica.
But the 'new' report is only based on data up to 2008.
Article from Dec. 2014
Snow that began piling up 10,000 years ago in Antarctica is adding enough ice to offset the increased losses due to thinning glaciers, according to a NASA study.
The latest findings appear to challenge other studies including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2013 report, which found that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...c-ice-growing-countering-earlier-studies.html
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Antarctica is growing not shrinking, according to the latest studyfrom NASA. Furthermore, instead of contributing to rising sea levels, the still-very-much-frozen southern continent is actually reducing them by 0.23 mm per year.
The study – by an organization not hitherto noted for playing down environmental scares – will come as a major blow climate alarmists.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...shock-study-antarctica-growing-not-shrinking/
But the 'new' report is only based on data up to 2008.
The 'old' studies that confirm ice loss are based on data up to 2013, making this 'new' study pretty much moot.Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) data (2003–08) show mass gains from snow accumulation exceeded discharge losses by 82 ± 25 Gt a–1, reducing global sea-level rise by 0.23 mm a–1.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/jog/pre-prints/content-ings_jog_15j071
Article from Dec. 2014
The scientists used observations from four different techniques to measure the amount and change in rate of ice loss from a region in West Antarctica. This area was already known to be melting at an astonishing rate; a recent study using Cryosat 2 showed that in the period from 2010 to 2013, the region was losing ice to the tune of 134 billion metric tons of ice per year.
The new study looked at fourobservation sets covering the years 1992–2013. They found that on average over that time, ice loss from West Antarctica was about 83 billion metric tons per year … but the average increase in that loss was 6.1 billion tons every year. By the end of the time range, the numbers between the new study and the one from CryoSat2 are consistent.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...more_than_6_billion_tons_of_ice_annually.html