Timothy Birdnow

Even though ice mass has been growing in East Antarctica we still had some large shelf collapses in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and it has long been blamed by the kooks that it is caused by Global Warming. Well...

While this is not the WAIS but around the Antarctic Peninsula (I preferred when they called it the Palmer Peninsula) there is no reason to not think it's happening elsewhere on the continent.

We were blissfully unaware of all this seismic activity until now. Yet it explains the big ice shelf collapses without needing to resort to the boogieman of Climate Change. Earthquakes and under-ice volcanoes explain any ice loss at the bottom of the world.

Of course that won't stop the Gang Green. These are glacial earthquakes, so called because they happen to large ice sheets and glaciers as a result of movement and tremors, an so the warmiacs can say they are caused by warmer temperatures making the ice move more. No matter what the stimulus these folks go back to their pet hobbyhorse.

But it's a lot of nonsense; Antarctica is far too cold for a one degree warming to lead to such things. Fat chance that will stop them though.

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