West Antarctic glacier collapsing due to geothermal heat?

Somehow volcanoes will be blamed on global warming or George Bush. Take your pick.

Via The daily Caller:

A new study by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is collapsing due to geothermal heat, not man-made global warming.
Researchers from the UTA’s Institute for Geophysics found that the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica is being eroded by the ocean as well as geothermal heat from magma and subaerial volcanoes. Thwaites is considered a key glacier for understanding future sea level rise.
UTA researchers used radar techniques to map water flows under ice sheets and estimate the rate of ice melt in the glacier. As it turns out, geothermal heat from magma and volcanoes under the glacier is much hotter and covers a much wider area than was previously thought.
“Geothermal flux is one of the most dynamically critical ice sheet boundary conditions but is extremely difficult to constrain at the scale required to understand and predict the behavior of rapidly changing glaciers,” UTA researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Chairman of IPCC Used Bogus Himalayan Glacier Melting Scam in Fund-raising

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), used bogus claims about Himalayan glaciers melting to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. Pachauri is alleged to be a glacier expert and should have easily known the claims were false. Some people are wondering if his actions were criminal.

The Times reported:

The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

In another blow to the hot air fueling global warming, Himalayan glaciers won't melt by 2035

The blows keep falling on climate alarmists claims of extraordinary man-made global warming. The latest blow to fall is the revelation the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claim that Himalayan glaciers would vanish inside 30 years. It has been revealed this claim was based on "speculation" by a little known scientist and was not supported by any formal research. The IPCC has no credibility.

THE peak UN body on climate change has been dealt another humiliating blow to its credibility after it was revealed a central claim of one of its benchmark reports - that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 because of global warming - was based on a "speculative" claim by an obscure Indian scientist.

Al Gore is Freaked Out About Melting Ice or Something (video)

Al Gore spent made a speech in Copenhagen about 'melting ice.' Yes. According to the Goracle, "When it is gone, it is gone." I guess Al Gore never visited the University of Illinois website. They are the 'keepers' of sea ice data. According to their records, sea ice has been stable for 150 years.



It is true that some glaciers are melting. This could be considered a normal thing since the Earth has been in a slight warming trend after coming out of a little ice age around 1850. Some glacier melt, such as Kilimanjaro, can be attributed to deforestation. If you still think Al Gore has any scientific credibility, check out his discovery of "stellar fusion" at the Earth's core.