Michael Snyder (Opinion) -This is what can happen when someone says the quiet part out loud. A new study that has just been released is creating quite a bit of controversy, because it calls into question some of the most important scientific narratives that are being pushed all over the world today.
No matter what the numbers say, scientists are always supposed to attribute any changes to our planet to the “horrors” of man-made global warming. The global elite have worked very hard to get hundreds of millions of people around the globe to buy into this story, and so much of their political agenda hinges on it. So under no circumstance is any scientist ever supposed to suggest that what is going on under our feet could be the real root cause of our environmental problems.
Unfortunately for the global elite, that is precisely what a team of German and British researchers just did.
According to those researchers, “a conspicuously large amount of heat from Earth’s interior” is largely responsible for the rapid melting of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica…
Ice losses from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica are currently responsible for roughly four percent of the global sea-level rise. This figure could increase, since virtually no other ice stream in the Antarctic is changing as dramatically as the massive Thwaites Glacier. Until recently, experts attributed these changes to climate change and the fact that the glacier rests on the seafloor in many places, and as such comes into contact with warm water masses. But there is also a third, and until now, one of the most difficult to constrain, influencing factors. In a new study, German and British researchers have shown that there is a conspicuously large amount of heat from Earth’s interior beneath the ice, which has likely affected the sliding behaviour of the ice masses for millions of years. This substantial geothermal heat flow, in turn, is due to the fact that the glacier lies in a tectonic trench, where the Earth’s crust is significantly thinner than it is e.g. in neighbouring East Antarctica. The new study was published today in the Nature online journal Communications Earth & Environment.
The researchers have tried to comfort the blow by assuring all of us that geothermal heat has been affecting the glacier for “millions of years”, but of course there is no way for them to know that.
But what we do know is that geothermal heat is playing a major role in melting the glacier right now.
And we also know that the rate at which the glacier has been melting is accelerating. In fact, at this point it is....READ MORE
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