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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
13%/year for 5 decades-----65% or about 2/3 of the Antarctic ice is gone???? What are you smoking and where can I get some??????
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Wrong equation. It isn't a loss of 5*.13=.65%, it is a maintenance of (1-.13)^5=50%. So that statement says Antarctica has lost an amount of mass equivalent to 50%.
Other papers agree that Antarctica is losing mass and that the rate is increasing.
However, still other papers counter that while the loss of mass is significant, there is also a gain of mass due to snowfall. Some of those papers claim the gain of mass is larger than the loss of mass which would mean the mass of the ice cover on Antarctica is increasing, not decreasing.
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works.
Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so.
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