Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change - Antarctica is Adding More

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Adding more ice than it's losing..

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses | NASA

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.

According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.

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The earth is warming, this is not a debate. But it's not always so clear cut as some would have you believe. It's also important to understand that the earth goes through natural cooling and heating periods regardless of humans. The Jurassic period was warmer than it is now for example. The Ice age came about without any human tinkering. Heating and cooling is a natural event. Humans have simply sped up that process with greenhouse gas by a few hundred years.