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Dwindling Antarctic ice messing with Earth’s gravity: Blame climate change
The Earth’s gravity is messing up and global warming appears to be responsible. The warming climate has caused massive ice loss in West Antarctica in recent years and this phenomenon has caused the Earth’s gravity to be weaker there.
The findings were based on measurements made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite, which was developed to map the Earth’s gravitation field, and data from the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, a collaboration between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the German Aerospace Center which aims to provide accurate mapping of variations in the gravity field of the Earth.
Changes in the earth’s mass cause the gravity to fluctuate in small ways but with the large scale melting of the ice sheets in West Antarctica between 2009 and 2012, the loss was large enough to result in changes in the Earth gravitational force pulling over the region, ESA revealed.
Of course, that area only comprises 10 percent of Antarctica, with the other 90% continuing to dramatically increase. And, guess what? The melting in West Antarctica cannot be proven to have any other than typical natural causation.
Meanwhile, we have excuses #53 and #54 for The Pause. Perhaps, someday, Warmists will wake up and stop acting like the worst religious zealots, and actually become interested in the way Science works. Nah. This whole issue is about Progressives enforcing their fascistic political agenda on the nation and world.
The earth’s gravity does change at the poles as the earth is not constantly a perfect sphere and with fluctuate so that the poles move away from center. Moving away from center does decrease gravity. Ica has nothing to do with this. This type of crap summates the whole climate change religion.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/GOCE_reveals_gravity_dip_from_ice_loss
Teach typed, without evidence (it was not in his link, other than a pingback to his own quote): “Of course, that area only comprises 10 percent of Antarctica, with the other 90% continuing to dramatically increase. And, guess what? The melting in West Antarctica cannot be proven to have any other than typical natural causation.”
But let’s give Teach props for using his own quote as evidence for his own quote!! Brilliant ploy!
dave, You should have challenged this statement by Teach as the crap that summates the entire Denialsphere. Do you think that 90% of the Antarctic ice sheet is dramatically increasing or do you just take Teach’s word for it?
BTW, The impact of the melting ice sheets on gravity is real but trivial.
“Melting Antarctic changing gravity….” Which if true means it’s happened in the past 4billion years many times. Which in turn means this, as usual, is nothing.