Are you saying the research, which was published in Nature, is faulty? Based on what, exactly?
But it does track with actual data. They discovered there were 8 pulses of iceberg swarms over 20,000 years. And all tracked with sudden, large rises in sea level. Given the state of PIne Island Glacier, it is going to happen again.
The Pine Island Glacier has an ice shelf which slows the rate that its ice stream drains. But the ice shelf is disintegrating, primarily because current have changed and relatively warm water is circulating under the ice shelf. A couple of years ago, a chunk the size of Singapore broke off. Given the rate at which the rest of the shelf is melting, about 2 inches per day, even if it doesn't calve more huge icebergs, it will have completely melted in less than 30 years. Because the ice shelf has already lost a lot of ice, the ice stream has been accelerating lately. By the end of 2007, it was losing 46 gigatons of ice a year.
When the ice shelf disintegrates, that is a prime condition for those iceberg swarms that were discovered.
Nothing crazy about it.
Now, what manipulating of historical measurements are you talking about? Or is this something else you have pulled out of your ass? |
