Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582 • Watts Up With That?
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“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein
Four new studies in prestigious journals show Antarctic ice shelf is as stable as ever.
Four new studies in prestigious journals show Antarctic ice shelf as stable as ever.
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Abstract. Antarctic ice shelves provide buttressing support to the ice sheet, stabilising the flow of grounded ice and its contribution to global sea levels. Over the past 50 years, satellite observations have shown ice shelves collapse, thin, and retreat; however, there are few measurements of the Antarctic-wide change in ice shelf area. Here, we use MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite data to measure the change in ice shelf calving front position and area on 34 ice shelves in Antarctica from 2009 to 2019. Over the last decade, a reduction in the area on the Antar...