Sin of omission: Warm water beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is GEOTHERMAL

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Sin of omission: Warm water beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” is GEOTHERMAL
By CFACT Ed |April 10th, 2021|Climate|52 Comments

Under the heading “climate change,” the folks over at Earther/Gizmodo write that the “First-Ever Observations From Under Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Are Bad News.”

Bad news or not, the story about an unmanned submarine measuring water temperature beneath Thwaite’s Glacier and the potential impact on sea level leaves out a crucial point.  Scientists have long established that warm water temperature beneath the glacier are majorly impacted by volcanic activity.   There is a tectonic fissure directly below Antarctica’s Pine Island ice shelf.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin concluded that, “The cause of the variable distribution of heat beneath the glacier is thought to be the movement of magma and associated volcanic activity arising from the rifting of Earth’s crust beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.”

https://www.cfact.org/2021/04/10/sin-of-omission-warm-water-beneath-antarcticas-doomsday-glacier-is-geothermal/