NASA: Antarctic ice sheet is...wait, showing gains?:
"...A new NASA study says that
an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.
All this time, the “melting” of glaciers and ice caps has been the driving force behind leftists claims that we have to run in fear of man made global warming. Except there’s more ice.
Now allow me to clarify, because some of you may be saying “Hey Crowder, ‘more’ is a relative term.” That’s true. But in this case, ‘more’ actually equates to hundreds of billions of tons. That, my friends, is what we call, “statistically significant.”
Here’s some more to chew on; t
he worst case scenario – meaning the absolute worst case that is even humanly feasible, let alone possible – is that if the net gain continued to slow at its current rate… it would still take at least three decades before we got to a point of beginning to see net losses.
Meaning we’d still gain trillions of tons of ice between now and say 2046 before we started to see a net loss of ice. Meaning at that point, continuing at the worst rate we can possibly project, we’d have many decades before ice volume fell to 2015 levels . Let alone levels of 30 years ago, before this whole scare started.
Sorry, was that too much math?..."
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The four-year tentative deal included an annual 2.5 per cent increase to the total budget for doctors’ fees, now about $11.5 billion a year. It included a promise not to impose further cuts on doctors, as the Liberal government did last year and in its 2012 round of bargaining. It included $370 million over the four years to encourage doctors to “co-manage” the system with the provincial health ministry in a bid to reduce costs.
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Many of the emails are redacted, and some are almost comically boring—“No new voice messages,” one reads in full—but others are not.
