Past warming increased snowfall on Antarctica, affecting global sea level

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Past warming increased snowfall on Antarctica, affecting global sea level

A new study confirms that snowfall in Antarctica will increase significantly as the planet warms, offsetting future sea level rise from other sources - but the effect will not be nearly as strong as many scientists previously anticipated because of other, physical processes.

more... http://phys.org/news/2015-03-snowfall-antarctica-affecting-global-sea.html

 

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Giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet

Extreme weather phenomena called atmospheric rivers were behind intense snowstorms recorded in 2009 and 2011 in East Antarctica. The resulting snow accumulation partly offset recent ice loss from the Antarctic ice sheet, report researchers from KU Leuven.


more... http://phys.org/news/2015-01-giant-atmospheric-rivers-mass-antarctica.html#inlRlv

 

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There are so many possible things that can happen on the planet in the coming decades and centuries it's foolish for anyone to say they have even the slightest idea what the climate will be like fifty, a hundred, or a thousand years from now.

 

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A new scientific study says there are too many scientific studies.