The bit that the climate mongo's always harp on about, the Thwaits Glacier and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, are effected by large numbers of active volcanos underneath them. They are being "melted" from below, not from above (which would be largely impossible as the temperature there is only rarely above the freezing point of water).
A slow increase since the late 70s would tend to indicate a counter-cycle to the Stadium Wave climate cycle (~70 year cycle) in which that time was a zenith of ice in the Arctic, reducing into the mid 2010s.
The bit that the climate mongo's always harp on about, the Thwaits Glacier and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, are effected by large numbers of active volcanos underneath them. They are being "melted" from below, not from above (which would be largely impossible as the temperature there is only rarely above the freezing point of water).
A slow increase since the late 70s would tend to indicate a counter-cycle to the Stadium Wave climate cycle (~70 year cycle) in which that time was a zenith of ice in the Arctic, reducing into the mid 2010s.
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