NASA Insists Antarctica Has Been Melting For Decades Despite Plenty of Evidence to the Contrary
NASA Insists Antarctica Has Been Melting For Decades Despite Plenty of Evidence to the Contrary
According to data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) GRACE satellite, Antarctica has been losing ice mass at a rate of 150 billion tons per year going back to 2002 because of global warming.
Between Antarctica and the Greenland ice sheet, they are responsible for “about one-third of the global average rise in sea level since 1993.”
Yet in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2018 report on climate change, it noted the complete opposite:
“The Antarctic Ice Sheet is projected to remain too cold for widespread surface melting, and to receive increased snowfall, leading to a gain of ice.”
While NASA is detailing a constant decline, the IPCC shows Antartica consistently gaining ice. Nearby sea levels have been declining rather than growing.
The IPCC’s analysis also lines up with data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), previously reported on by Investigative Economics, that showed Antarctica consistently gaining ice mass since the 1980s to 2013 as temperatures on the White Continent were consistently flat.
Only since 2013 has Antarctica seen some increases in temperature and melting ice contained to its Western edge, largely ascribed to volcanic activity.