Claims of net ice loss have been countered by claims of
net ice gain such as NASA 2015.
Additionally, unadjusted GRACE gravity data has suggested no lost ice mass and all estimates
of ice gains or loss depend on which Glacial Isostatic Adjustments modelers choose to use.
Two decades ago, the Greenland ice sheet was in approximate balance - ice loss at the edges as glaciers calved into the ocean was balanced
by ice gain in the interior from increased snowfall.
Shave ice gained worldwide popularity after Japanese plantation workers immigrated to Hawaii, and today, visitors can enjoy this dessert all over the islands!
Greenland has gained 300 billion tons of ice since September 1, blowing away all records
for ice gain.
Sea ice loss may cool the polar oceans and likewise sea
ice gain warm them during cool periods.
For the decade of 2013 - 2023 (right), the scientists expect to see some winter sea ice loss balanced with sea
ice gain on the Atlantic side of the Arctic Ocean, where scientists have the most confidence in the model's ability.
Scientists around the world report that Greenland is losing ice overall, despite
small ice gains at high altitudes.
In their minds, ice loss in the Northern Hemisphere is caused by «global warming,»
while ice gain in the Southern Hemisphere is the result of something else entirely.
Satellite measurements show an 82 - 112 gigaton - a-year
net ice gain.
So what do you make of the theory that catastrophic manmade CO2 - driven «climate change» can account for harsher winters and lighter winters, more snow and less snow, droughts and floods, more hurricanes and less hurricanes, more rain and less rain, more malaria and less malaria, saltier seas and less salty seas, Antarctica ice melting and
Antarctic ice gaining and dozens of other contradictions?
In fact, the sea
ice gains in Antarctica have perhaps modestly superseded the losses in the Arctic, resulting in a very slight increasing overall trend in global - scale sea ice during the last 10 years:
One way to assess the health of ice sheets is to look at their balance: when an ice sheet is in balance,
the ice gained through snowfall equals the ice lost through melting and iceberg calving.
The ice gained in the interior is roughly balanced by the ice loss at the edges.
According to NSIDC sea ice trend data, from 1979 to 2006, the sea ice losses for the Arctic (purple trend line in graph below) were effectively counterbalanced by the sea
ice gains in the Antarctic (green trend line), producing a conspicuously flat trend line in global sea ice.
Of course, they blame that ice loss on «global warming,» but somehow don't mention
the ice gain in the Southern Hemisphere.