"Martin Eastburn" wrote in message
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Scientists bore a hole down the ice on the south pole.
They were wondering why the ice was thinning. They
found the issue a warm up-flow of water. The mountain
range there is still active and likely a volcano or hot spot
in the mantel that is heating up the center of the large ice pack.

No wonder it is melting and moving out - Has a heater in the base
support.

Martin


Part of the chain of Antarctic volcanoes:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85238

The True Believers concocted a tale that the West Antarctic ice sheet
was melting because AGW-induced wind shifts blew warm water far
underneath the ice sheet, to avoid having to admit that the real cause
was a natural volcanic hot spot instead of another excuse to smugly
blame modern society.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/...eaten-away-sea
"What's driving these regional differences in intrusions of warm
water, Schmidtko says, appears to be the current wind patterns. But
these, the authors note, are subject to change, due not only to
greenhouse warming but also to the recovering ozone hole. That, in
turn, could bring warmer waters to regions now dominated by cold
waters, such as the southern Weddell Sea, he adds. "That could have
consequences for glaciers that do not belong to West Antarctica and
could be affected for the first time."

http://www.livescience.com/41847-wes...-hot-spot.html

--jsw