Good News: Antarctica Isn't Melting After All
Hardest hit: Al Gore.
The Antarctic Ice Sheet is rebounding, say scientists. Hardest hit by this positive development? Former Vice President and pretend climate scientist, Al Gore.
A new report, as reported by NYPost, claims the AIS “gained mass at a rate of 108 gigatons per year” between 2021 and 2023.
NYP added:
The researchers analyzed data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) and GRACE-FO (GRACE Follow-On) missions, which measure changes in Earth’s gravity field to track ice mass fluctuations. They found that the AIS had been losing ice at a rate of 142 gigatons per year from 2011 to 2020.
That accelerated mass loss was mainly driven by the destabilization of glaciers in West Antarctica and the Wilkes Land–Queen Mary Land (WL-QML) region of East Antarctica.
However, the recent period from 2021 to 2023 saw a dramatic shift, with ice mass in East Antarctica particularly showing signs of recovery.
Notably, four major glacier basins in the WL-QML region — Totten, Moscow University, Denman and Vincennes Bay — had been losing the most mass, with ice discharge and surface melting responsible for much of the loss.
But between 2021 and 2023, those glaciers experienced significant mass gain, reversing the accelerated loss they had undergone.
Isn’t it amazing that climate alarmist predictions fail to pan out?
Interesting post, thank you. Do you know if this report was peer-reviewed? How credible is it? No disrespect to you, ma'am, but I am leery of such reports these days.