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>>16236712
they hate real science, they only like their doomsday fairytales because those fairytales power and justify their cringe power fantasies

>>16073548

West Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing

>New study suggests surprising wrinkle in history of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-wrinkle-history-west-antarctic-ice.html

Scientists generally have believed that since the end of the last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been getting smaller and smaller, with its retreat triggered by a warming world and sea-level rise from collapse of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets.

A study published online June 13, 2018 in the journal Nature shows a more complicated history.

Surprising new data and ice-sheet modeling suggest that between roughly 14,500 and 9,000 years ago, the ice sheet below sea level partially melted and shrunk to a size even smaller than today—but it did not collapse. Over the subsequent millennia, the loss of the massive amount of ice that was previously weighing down the seabed spurred uplift in the sea floor—a process known as isostatic rebound. Then the ice sheet began to regrow toward today's configuration