Maybe Not Your Fault: Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Not Inevitable

January 17, 2023 – 7:00 am

This is good news from the Cult of Climastrology, I guess

Runaway W. Antarctic ice sheet collapse not ‘inevitable’: study

The runaway collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — which would trigger catastrophic sea level rise — is not “inevitable”, scientists said Monday following research that tracked the region’s recent response to climate change.

As global temperatures rise, there is mounting concern that warming could trigger so-called tipping points that set off irreversible melting of the world’s massive ice sheets and ultimately lift oceans enough to drastically redraw the world map.

New research published Monday suggests a complex interaction of factors affecting the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is home to the enormous and unstable Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers — nicknamed the “Doomsday glacier” — that together could raise global sea levels by more than three metres (10 feet).

Using satellite imagery as well as ocean and climate records between 2003 and 2015, an international team of researchers found that while the West Antarctic Ice Sheet continued to retreat, the pace of ice loss slowed across a vulnerable region of the coastline.

Their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, concluded that this slowdown was caused by changes in ocean temperatures that were caused by offshore winds, with pronounced differences in the impact depending on the region.

OK, let’s put this in real talk: the apocalypse of the collapse of the ice sheet is simply not cooperating with the cult’s prognostications of doom, so, they’re trying to spin it

Researchers said that this raises questions about how rising temperatures will affect the Antarctic, with ocean and atmospheric conditions playing a key role.

“That means that ice-sheet collapse is not inevitable,” said co-author Professor Eric Steig from the University of Washington in Seattle.

“It depends on how climate changes over the next few decades, which we could influence in a positive way by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Yup, cult spin. They’re trying to get ahead of yet another failed prognostication.

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2 Responses to “Maybe Not Your Fault: Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Not Inevitable”

  1. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:08 pm

    It’s surprising that “they” would permit this to be published!

  2. Elwood P. Dowd says:
    January 17, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    Here’s a link to the original technical report… Mr Teach considers this report to be part of the conspiracy to explain failed predictions! The Deniers have the scientists on the run! LOL.

    Inter-decadal Climate Variability Induces Differential Ice Response Along Pacific-facing West Antarctica

    Abstract
    West Antarctica has experienced dramatic ice losses contributing to global sea-level rise in recent decades, particularly from Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers.

    Although these ice losses manifest an ongoing Marine Ice Sheet Instability, projections of their future rate are confounded by limited observations along West Antarctica’s coastal perimeter with respect to how the pace of retreat can be modulated by variations in climate forcing.

    Here, we derive a comprehensive, 12-year record of glacier retreat around West Antarctica’s Pacific-facing margin and compare this dataset to contemporaneous estimates of ice flow, mass loss, the state of the Southern Ocean and the atmosphere. Between 2003 and 2015, rates of glacier retreat and acceleration were extensive along the Bellingshausen Sea coastline, but slowed along the Amundsen Sea. We attribute this to an interdecadal suppression of westerly winds in the Amundsen Sea, which reduced warm water inflow to the Amundsen Sea Embayment.

    Our results provide direct observations that the pace, magnitude and extent of ice destabilization around West Antarctica vary by location, with the Amundsen Sea response most sensitive to interdecadal atmosphere-ocean variability. Thus, model projections accounting for regionally resolved ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions will be important for predicting accurately the short-term evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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