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The crack in an Antarctic ice shelf just grew by 11 miles. A break could be imminent.
An enormous rift in one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past several weeks, and a chunk nearly the size of Delaware could break away within months
If this happens, it could accelerate a further breakup of the ice shelf, essentially removing a massive cork of ice that keeps some of Antarctica's glaciers from flowing into the ocean. The long term result, scientists project, could be to noticeably raise global sea levels by 10 centimeters, or almost four inches.
However, other analyses have suggested that most of the ice that would be lost is so-called “passive ice” that does not play a key role in holding the glaciers behind the shelf in place. And some scientists have expressed skepticism about whether what’s happening at Larsen C is “cause for alarm.”
The floating ice shelf is fed by the flow of ice glaciers that sit above sea level on the Antarctic Peninsula. As the shelf shrinks, these glaciers could flow more quickly - which would contribute to rising sea levels. Losses from the ice shelf alone, however dramatic, would not have that effect, because the shelf is already floating on water, just like an ice cube in a glass of water.
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In comparing the maximal temperature of the MWP with that of the Current Warm Period -- which comparison follows the approach used in the IPCC report -- Naulier et al. determined that the running 50-year averages between 1000 and 1100 were higher (+0.2 ± 0.1 °C) than the measured temperature of the last 50 years (1959-2009). This finding suggests, therefore, that there is nothing unusual, unnatural, or unprecedented about the current level of warmth in northeastern Canada, providing no proof for climate-alarmist claims in this part of the world that rising greenhouse gases are causing exceptional warmth. Furthermore, in discussing potential causes of change across their millennial temperature series, Naulier et al. report that their data suggest that "solar radiation was the most influential forcing on Tmax changes in the studied region," further noting that "low temperature periods were always associated to low solar radiation periods (p < 0.05)."
The 9-year major hurricane "drought" (2006-2014 inclusive), as the two researchers describe it, is without precedent in the historical record -- as documented by records archived in the National Hurricane Center's Hurricane Database (HURDAT) -- which extends all the way back to 1851, as described by Jarvinen et al. (1984). And this record reveals that the closest major hurricane drought to that of the present was the smaller 8-year record of 1861-1868.
In addition, Hall and Hereid employed a stochastic tropical cyclone model to calculate the mean waiting time between multi-year major hurricane droughts, finding that "the mean time to wait for a 9-year drought is 177 years." And so it would appear that if post-Little Ice Age warming has impacted land-falling U.S. hurricanes, it has done so in a most pleasant manner.