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Global Warming = more ice? 'splain please

An interesting report in the current Nature:

East Antarctica puts on weight
Increased snowfall could slow sea-level rise.

Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice.

A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.12 millimetres per year. The ice sheets that cover Antarctica's bedrock are several kilometres thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice. But scientists fear that if they melt in substantial quantities, this will swell the oceans and cause devastation on islands and coastal lands.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that sea level is currently rising at about 1.8 millimetres per year, largely through melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as a result of global warming. But the panel also expected that climate change would trigger an increase in snowfall over the Antarctic continent, as increased evaporation from the oceans puts more moisture into the air.

Emphasis mine -- Kyoto doesn't even begin to come close to working with something like this -- so why are so many moonbats pushing so hard for it? Oh yeah, some of the scientists comments on this work are great -- here is one from the same article:

"This is a phenomenal piece of research, but it is what we expected," comments David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. "These effects have been predicted for a long time, it's just that no one has measured them before."

Climate Modeling is an evolving Science so why do so many people want to stick with a model that is 20 years old and ignores the most prevalent Greenhouse Gas and allows the two of the most polluting nations to conduct "Bid'ness as Usual". Maybe someone needs to take another look at the politics involved, it certainly is not a Scientific decision... Posted by DaveH at May 19, 2005 10:36 PM