The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

Around page 48 of this thread starts some info about "Sudden Stratospheric Warming".

Today, article on SOTT about upcoming LONG FREEZE due to SSW.

https://www.sott.net/article/341824-Rare-polar-phenomenon-Sudden-Stratospheric-Warming-could-trigger-big-freeze-across-UK

The UK faces a three-week freeze with temperatures plunging as cold as -15C because of a rare North Pole phenomenon that triggered the 2010 big freeze and nationwide white-out. The worst cold spell of winter, with widespread snow, ice and travel chaos, threatens from February 11.

The North Pole's high-altitude air has suddenly warmed up and is set to shunt cold low-level Arctic air south to Scotland. However, the whole of the UK is set for a bitter spell of freezing temperatures.

The event, known as a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) usually chills Scotland for two weeks or longer and sees widespread snow. It has not occurred for four years, official records show. The warning points to the Arctic phenomenon in its February to April forecast being briefed to the Cabinet Office, transport bosses, councils and emergency services.

An SSW often allows cold air to flood Britain from the east and is forecasting "colder and drier conditions" from the end of the week for up to three weeks, lasting into March. The last SSW event to hit Scotland was in early 2013, which saw the coldest March for 51 years, with snow and -12.5C lows as late as March 31 in Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

SSW events also triggered -16.1C lows in Altnaharra, Highland, in November 2010 - starting December 2010's month-long Big Freeze. Britain's record coldest ever February temperature is -27.2C, set on February 11, 1895, at Braemar, Aberdeenshire.

A Met Office forecaster said: "It is likely to become rather cold in the East, and from mid-February until the beginning of March, high pressure over the continent will gradually build. "Our weather is likely to stay on the cold side, with a lot of dry days. "Nights will bring further frost. The start of March may turn more unsettled."

The government February to April contingency forecast said: "The probability of Sudden Stratospheric Warming is higher-than-normal in February. "These events disrupt the stratospheric polar vortex and, more often than not, bring cold weather to the UK." Professor Adam Scaife added: "A Sudden Stratospheric Warming involves a complete reversal of the high altitude polar jet stream.

"This can burrow into the lower stratosphere. "The Atlantic jet stream often weakens and moves south. This allows cold air from the east into northern Europe and the UK." If easterly air reaches the UK and becomes established, temperatures could fall as low as -15C.

One wonders, of course, when such an event is going to trigger ice sheet build-up.

Also, comet scheduled to come close to earth on Feb 11 just in time for my birthday!!!
 
Laura said:
Around page 48 of this thread starts some info about "Sudden Stratospheric Warming".
Today, article on SOTT about upcoming LONG FREEZE due to SSW.

https://www.sott.net/article/341824-Rare-polar-phenomenon-Sudden-Stratospheric-Warming-could-trigger-big-freeze-across-UK

The government February to April contingency forecast said: "The probability of Sudden Stratospheric Warming is higher-than-normal in February. "These events disrupt the stratospheric polar vortex and, more often than not, bring cold weather to the UK." Professor Adam Scaife added: "A Sudden Stratospheric Warming involves a complete reversal of the high altitude polar jet stream.

"This can burrow into the lower stratosphere. "The Atlantic jet stream often weakens and moves south. This allows cold air from the east into northern Europe and the UK." If easterly air reaches the UK and becomes established, temperatures could fall as low as -15C.
One wonders, of course, when such an event is going to trigger ice sheet build-up.

Also, comet scheduled to come close to earth on Feb 11 just in time for my birthday!!!

Spikes On The Graph :whistle: (Dark Star+ Comet Cluster + The Wave ?)

https://youtu.be/gypAjPp6eps

Session 23 January 2016
(L) Other questions?
(Joe) There's an alignment of five planets starting more or less now...
(L) It's not an alignment. Let's call it a display... a visual display.
(Joe) Okay. Of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn for the next month. The last time this happened was December 2004, which also lasted for one month. About ten days into that event, there was the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed 300,000 people.
(L) When was the last time it happened before that? Has anybody looked into that?
(Data) It's hard to calculate it.
(Joe) Well, it would be in the news, no? But maybe the first question is: Did the last alignment have anything to do with that earthquake?
A: Yes partly.
Q: (Pierre) The reason why this alignment was a cause or partial cause of the earthquake is related to this discharge model we developed in the Earth Changes book?
A: Yes but not all such configurations are necessarily connected to such events. In the present period, there are other important energies afoot in the cosmos.
Q: (Pierre) In 1997, you mentioned that the energetic source of El Niño was some kind of energetic connection with the cosmos around 18 degrees latitude.
A: Yes
Q: (Pierre) Now, you also mentioned in 1997 that Laura should look for a spike in the graph. Here in my hand, in front of my eyes I have an ocean index graph showing that there is a spike. Right now we're experiencing the strongest El Niño since 1950. So, first: Is this spike the spike you were hinting about 19 years ago?
A: Indeed. And it is not yet over.
Q: (Pierre) We have reached a level that is higher than ever, and it's STILL climbing up. You mentioned this spike in conjunction with a 10.4 earthquake near the West coast of the USA in the Pacific.
A: Indeed.
Q: (Pierre) So, does this spike in El Niño activity indicate a 10.4 earthquake coming in the Pacific?
A: Could very well be. Notice the Hawaii aviation crash and then relate to the items we listed as being associated.
Q: (L) Well, now wait a minute. In that particular list of items... Admittedly, that also includes something about, "Ukraine explosion". Well, what we have in Ukraine is not even an explosion, it's like a human explosion there. There are lots of associated bombs exploding and military type activity. But a singular Ukraine explosion, chemical or nuclear, did not occur.

A: Notice also in that possible timeline that Princess Diana was mentioned?
Q: (L) Yes, Princess Diana was mentioned as some kind of suicide attempt. But Princess Diana is dead, so what are you saying? Are we on a different timeline than the one that was involved in that collection of predictions?
A: Somewhat. Notice that what has happened in Ukraine is worse than a single explosion.
Q: (L) So Princess Diana died in 1997, before we talked about that spike. The predictions about Ukraine and all those other things came, what? In 1994? Several years earlier, I think. And you're saying that what was predicted in that string of predictions about Ukraine specifically was not as bad as what is actually happening now. And obviously, Princess Diana dying in that terrible car crash as she did then was a lot worse than her living on and maybe having a suicide attempt but getting counseling and living her life, her children not being left alone, and all that sort of thing. So, what appears to me to be what's going on is that we actually switched to a worse timeline because of something somebody did in 1996 or 1997?
(Pierre) Between the predictions and now.
(L) And are the predictions still similar?
A: Yes
Q: (L) I mean, we've still got Ukraine having explosions, just different. We still had this Hawaii aviation crash, which was on the list. But there were several other things. So, some things could be worse and some things could be not so worse? Is that what we're getting at?
A: Yes
Q: (L) What about the 10.4 earthquake? That was talked about after Diana’s death... I had the feeling that Diana's death was an evil thing. Like if somebody did that, they changed the whole future in a negative way. What was the date of that session?
(Andromeda) It was an evil marker.
(Chu) What else was in those predictions?
(L) California, Lassen, gas explosion in the Northeast... We've been having gas explosions like CRAZY, but everywhere.
(Data) What about the supernova?
(L) The supernova was included. We just got that report about the most bodacious supernova ever seen.

{December 13th, 2015: 'Intense Alaska storm ties strongest on record'
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A potent storm approaching western Alaska this weekend has tied the strongest recorded storm to impact the region. This storm comes a little over a year after ex-Super Typhoon Nuri became the most powerful system on record to cross Dutch Harbor, Alaska, which is located in the Aleutian Islands, with a central low pressure of 924 millibars (27.29 inches of Hg).

Wiki entry on the November 2014 'Bering Bomb':

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Due to an unusually powerful North Pacific jet stream, the extratropical cyclone underwent extremely explosive cyclogenesis on November 7, owing to the energy from differences in air masses. The system split into two centers early on the same day, but the former center on the southwest was absorbed into the new center on the northeast, within half of a day. After attaining typhoon-force winds at 70 knots (130 km/h; 80 mph), the new storm’s central pressure decreased to 924 mbar (hPa; 27.29 inHg) [NOAA's figure] early on November 8, becoming the most intense extratropical cyclone of the North Pacific Ocean since reliable records began. The system's intensity shifted the jet stream far to the north of Alaska, resulting in a large mass of Arctic air invading the United States along and east of the Rocky Mountains, which caused the worst cold wave the United States had experienced since the 2013–14 North American cold wave.}

(L) So, yeah... There is obviously some kind of energetic sink there. It's sucking energy.
(Data) Did the supernova that happened in January (this month) have any effects on humanity?
A: It didn't happen in January.
Q: (L) When did it happen?
(Data) The news article is from January.
(Andromeda) I think they discovered it in June of last year – June 2015. That's when it was first detected.
{Lee Billings of Scientific American reports:

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Discovered in June 2015 by ASAS-SN’s twin 14-centimeter telescopes operating in Cerro Tololo, Chile, the supernova just appeared as a transient dot of light in an image, and wasn’t immediately recognized as particularly special. Only after several other telescopes piled on to provide additional observations of the outburst’s fading afterglow did it become clear to Dong and his collaborators that they had seen something record-breaking. The first hint came from a spectrum of the supernova delivered by the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope in Chile seven days after the initial discovery. “When we saw the spectrum, we were baffled,” Dong recalls. “It didn’t look like any supernova we had seen.

The explosion’s magnitude is so large that it challenges the current theories about these cosmological phenomena. Allison Eck of PBS explains:

If ASASSN-15lh’s parent star shed its out layers of gas and then collapsed its inner core to form what’s called a magnetar—a dense, rapidly rotating magnetized core—then magnetized wind emanating from that collapse could have shocked the outwardly flying matter enough produce a massive explosion. The catch is that the magnetar would have to have been spinning at a rate of one revolution per millisecond—that’s 60,000 rpm—which pushes the boundaries of what scientists think is physically conceivable. The magnetar idea may not be correct, but it’s at least plausible. Meanwhile, experts are on the lookout for other explanations.}

(Data) What were the effects from the supernova?
A: Compare news to event!
Q: (L) Are you saying that it can have an effect on humanity, or it did?
A: Yes
Q: (L) But it's up to us to figure it out?
A: Yes

1950 Events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950
January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
January 23 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
January 31 - United States President Harry S. Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in 1949.[2]
February 8 - The Stasi is founded in East Germany and acts as a secret police until 1990.
Payment first made by Diners Club card, in New York, first use of a charge card.
February 12 - Albert Einstein warns that nuclear war could lead to mutual destruction.
February 13 - British Columbia B-36 crash – The U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried a Mark 4 nuclear bomb off the west coast of Canada, and produces the world's first Broken Arrow.
June 1–June 23 – Mauna Loa in Hawaii starts erupting.
June 28 - Korean War: Bodo League massacre begins: South Korean armed forces and police summarily execute at least 100,000 suspected North Korean sympathizers.
August 15 – The 8.6 Mw Assam–Tibet earthquake shakes the region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 1,500–3,300 people.
November 1 -Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman, who is staying at the Blair-Lee House in Washington, D.C. during White House repairs.
November 11 – The Mattachine Society is founded in Los Angeles as the first gay-liberation organization.
November 13 - A Curtiss Reid Flying Services plane crashes while en route to Paris from Rome, killing all 52 on board.
November 24 – A phenomenal winter storm ravages the northeastern United States, brings 30 to 50 inches of snow, temperatures below zero, and kills 323 people.
Passing's
January 21 – George Orwell, English author (b. 1903)

2009 Events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009
April 6 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing nearly 300 and injuring more than 1,500.[19]
June 1 – Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board.
July 22 – The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
September 30 – An 7.6 Mw earthquake strikes Sumatra, Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving at least 1,110 people dead.[35]
July 6 - Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1916)
July 17 - Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (b. 1916)
2009 Spike
http://icecream.me/uploads/58bbe40f296f88ac42483dc164eb1693.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z9_aYJfIRA

2011 Events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011
March 17 – Arab Spring and the Libyan Civil War: The United Nations Security Council votes 10–0 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against civilians.[17]
March 19 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi,[18] military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.[19]
Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country.[40][41][42] The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000.
2011 Spike
http://icecream.me/uploads/60c607fd9b88e23fd53ca7e9ac9e7a83.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBdvvXyS-r4

2013 Events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013
February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489-1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth's atmosphere in over a century.[10] The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international concern regarding the vulnerability of the planet to meteor strikes.[11][12]
June 6 – American Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.[29][30][31]
June 19- James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961) In Italy
2013 Spike
http://icecream.me/uploads/9cf97fdfa11d24d1ff1ef7cd2338a9a7.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36MEsWC1Pzc

Watch Comet 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková Fly Past Earth This Week 7 Feb , 2017
http://www.universetoday.com/133188/watch-comet-45p-honda-mrkos-pajdusakova-fly-past-earth-week/
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Comet_1769_Amsterdam-580x452.png
 
The Real Reality Show: Asteroid Day
Published on Jan 10, 2017

https://youtu.be/MAqUNMfQA4s
Large asteroids have struck Earth in the past and they will in the future. Learn about Asteroid Day, a movement that recognizes research on the dangers of Near-Earth Asteroids.

Astronomy Magazine
February 8, 2016 · Video
https://www.facebook.com/AstronomyMagazine/videos/vb.108218329601/10153954805634602/?type=2&theater
Tune into the Asteroid Day press conference
Editor David J. Eicher presents a few thoughts on a very important cause: protecting our planet from Near-Earth Objects. Tune in tomorrow for the Asteroid Day press conference livestream at 9 a.m. EST (https://goo.gl/8jNVwC).

NASA Video: OSIRS-REx Searching for Earth’s Trojan Asteroids (Happy Music)
Published on Feb 10, 2017
_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSudcE3mR7I
Trojan asteroids are common at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of other planets, leading or following the planet in its orbit.

But detecting our own Trojan asteroids from Earth is difficult since they appear close to the sun from our perspective. In mid-February 2017, NASA's OSIRS-REx mission will search for these elusive objects when the spacecraft passes by Earth's L4 Lagrange point, en route to asteroid Bennu in 2018. Jim Green, the Director of Planetary Science at NASA, discusses OSIRIS-REx and its search for Earth's Trojan asteroids.

Trojan asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_asteroid
http://images.slideplayer.com/11/3244026/slides/slide_20.jpg
 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by HMI. The smaller golden sun is extreme ultraviolet light from AIA and reveals some of the suns atmosphere, the corona. Both appear at one frame every 12 hours. SDO's nearly unbroken run is now long enough to watch the rise and fall of the current solar cycle. The graph of solar activity shows the sunspot number, a measurement based on the number of individual spots and the number of sunspot groups. In this case, the line represents a smoothed 26-day average to more clearly show the overall trend.

Notice the graph of solar activity on the top right corner.


https://youtu.be/kJPz-oRnRDE
 
Altair said:
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra

Notice the graph of solar activity on the top right corner.


https://youtu.be/kJPz-oRnRDE

The graph on the top right of the image above ends in 2015. The current Solar cycle shows two spikes (2012 and 2015). Since 2015, the solar activity has kept decreasing. Here is an updated graph:

sunspot.png
 
If anyone is interested this is the link to DMI with a graph of the estimated volume of ice sheet over Greenland (buttom graph) with the daily gain og loss (top graph) The latest is:
accumulatedsmb.png

For more detail check http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/
 
Saw this headline yesterday on CBC...

Scientists propose refreezing Arctic in battle against climate change

Project would involve 10 million devices and cost $500 billion US

I propose that they could achieve the same goal and save $500 billion dollars just by waiting a little while... :rolleyes:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/scientists-refreeze-arctic-1.3980429?cmp=rss

A group of researchers has proposed using wind-powered pumps to refreeze the Arctic.

The proposal seems ambitious: it involves 10 million devices deployed over 10 per cent of the Arctic, at a cost of $500 billion US.

Lead author of the paper, astrophysicist Steven Desch, concerned about what some climatologists predict to be an ice-free Arctic by 2030, challenged a group of his students at Arizona State University to develop a method to refreeze the Arctic.

Without ice to reflect sunlight into space, heat continues to be absorbed in the region. This, in turn, causes further warming and accelerates global climate change. While cutting down on carbon dioxide emissions is the solution various companies, researchers and governments are aiming for, Desch was concerned that it wasn't a "real-world" solution.

On paper, the theory works: pumping 1.3 metres of water to the surface would increase the ice's thickness by one metre per decade.

But, as the study notes, there are questions: Would the pumps operate in the harsh Arctic conditions? Could the ice production be scaled over a larger area? And what impact would the use of so many pumps have on the environment? However, Desch said, it's a start to a much-needed conversation.

"We want to provoke discussion, get people thinking about the Arctic in particular, about the need to intervene strongly there, because nothing we do on the world scale is going to be fast enough to save this summer sea ice in the Arctic," Desch said. [...]
 
[quote author= Timótheos]Saw this headline yesterday on CBC...

Scientists propose refreezing Arctic in battle against climate change

Project would involve 10 million devices and cost $500 billion US

I propose that they could achieve the same goal and save $500 billion dollars just by waiting a little while... :rolleyes:[/quote]

lol exactly, the upcoming ice age will do it for free. This is just totally bonkers, I wonder how many climate scientists will lose their job when the Ice Age hits. Allthough, they surely will try to spin it as if it still man-made somehow. They have enough creativity to do so, it's their job after all.
 
Timótheos said:
Saw this headline yesterday on CBC...

Scientists propose refreezing Arctic in battle against climate change

Project would involve 10 million devices and cost $500 billion US

I propose that they could achieve the same goal and save $500 billion dollars just by waiting a little while... :rolleyes:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/scientists-refreeze-arctic-1.3980429?cmp=rss

A group of researchers has proposed using wind-powered pumps to refreeze the Arctic.

The proposal seems ambitious: it involves 10 million devices deployed over 10 per cent of the Arctic, at a cost of $500 billion US.

Lead author of the paper, astrophysicist Steven Desch, concerned about what some climatologists predict to be an ice-free Arctic by 2030, challenged a group of his students at Arizona State University to develop a method to refreeze the Arctic.

Without ice to reflect sunlight into space, heat continues to be absorbed in the region. This, in turn, causes further warming and accelerates global climate change. While cutting down on carbon dioxide emissions is the solution various companies, researchers and governments are aiming for, Desch was concerned that it wasn't a "real-world" solution.

On paper, the theory works: pumping 1.3 metres of water to the surface would increase the ice's thickness by one metre per decade.

But, as the study notes, there are questions: Would the pumps operate in the harsh Arctic conditions? Could the ice production be scaled over a larger area? And what impact would the use of so many pumps have on the environment? However, Desch said, it's a start to a much-needed conversation.

"We want to provoke discussion, get people thinking about the Arctic in particular, about the need to intervene strongly there, because nothing we do on the world scale is going to be fast enough to save this summer sea ice in the Arctic," Desch said. [...]

When I go to sleep at night, I feel comforted that we have these kind of scientists out there working on our behalf... NOT! That is absolutely ridiculous. What are these guys smoking? I think it is just wishful thinking on a funding scheme that would pay them for the next 30 or so years. Nice work if you can get it. Got to spend those carbon dollars somewhere, right?
 
A massive, 1-mile-long (1.6 kilometers) chunk of ice has broken off Antarctica's fast-changing Pine Island Glacier, and NASA satellites captured the dramatic event as the icy surface cracked and ripped apart.

NASA Satellite Spots Mile-Long Iceberg Breaking Off of Antarctic Glacier
http://www.space.com/35746-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica-pine-island-glacier.html

The Pine Island Glacier is one of the largest glaciers within the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, accounting for about 20 percent of the ice sheet's total ice flow to the ocean, according to NASA scientists. The immense glacier is also one of the least stable, and in recent years, the ice sheet has been quickly retreating and losing massive amounts of ice. Previously, icebergs the size of cities have broken off of the Pine Island Glacier. [Photo Gallery: Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Cracks]

The glacier's last major iceberg break — an event known as calving — was in July 2015, when an iceberg measuring almost 225 square miles (580 square kilometers) separated from Pine Island Glacier.

The Earth-watching Landsat 8 satellite captured images of the latest iceberg event between Jan. 25 and 29, seeing the progression from the initial crack to the iceberg floating into the bay. Though this latest iceberg is about 10 times smaller than the 2015 event, measuring between 0.6 and 1.2 miles (1 to 2 km), NASA scientists said the recent break shows how fragile the ice shelf is.

"I think this event is the calving equivalent of an 'aftershock' following the much bigger event," Ian Howat, a glaciologist at The Ohio State University, said in a statement. "Apparently, there are weaknesses in the ice shelf — just inland of the rift that caused the 2015 calving — that are resulting in these smaller breaks."

More icebergs may break off of the Pine Island Glacier in the near future. NASA has previously photographed small rifts developing about 6 miles (10 km) from the ice front, and one such rift was observed on Nov. 4, 2016, during one of the agency's Operation IceBridge flights to monitor the region.

Climate change and the warming ocean have been linked to the the retreat and melt of the world's ice. According to Howat, such "rapid fire" calving is generally unusual for the glacier, but West Antarctic glaciers are eroding due to the flow of warm ocean water beneath them. A recent study found that the warming ocean was melting an ice crevasse of the Pine Island Glacier at the bedrock level, melting the glacier from its center.

These warmer ocean waters are causing the Antarctic ice shelf to break from the inside out. As such, scientists expect further calving along the glacier and have warned that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within the next 100 years.
 
angelburst29 said:
A massive, 1-mile-long (1.6 kilometers) chunk of ice has broken off Antarctica's fast-changing Pine Island Glacier, and NASA satellites captured the dramatic event as the icy surface cracked and ripped apart.

NASA Satellite Spots Mile-Long Iceberg Breaking Off of Antarctic Glacier
http://www.space.com/35746-iceberg-breaks-off-antarctica-pine-island-glacier.html
[...]

These warmer ocean waters are causing the Antarctic ice shelf to break from the inside out. As such, scientists expect further calving along the glacier and have warned that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse within the next 100 years.


Not sure about the exclusiveness of their explanation, although it may be a part of it. The other part might be seismic in nature that we don't often hear about, like this research/monitoring from 2010/11:


There’s Boiling Magma Beneath the Antarctic Ice, And It Could Burst Out at Any Time

Swarms of earthquakes beneath the Antarctic ice could be signs of an impending volcanic eruption

image: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/files/2013/11/11_18_2013_executive-committee-e1384788595912.jpg

The tip of Antarctica’s Mount Sidley, part of the Executive Committee Range. Photo: U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons

There’s a whole world trapped deep beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheets. There are glaciers that reach nearly three miles high. There are rivers and lakes that are filled with life. There are mountain ranges. There are volcanoes.

And every once in a while, a massive volcanic eruption will punch through the ice. As far as we know, the volcanoes that dot Antarctica’s ridiculously-named “Executive Committee Range“ haven’t seen an eruption in around 8,000 years. But according to new research the area is stirring: observations of a series of earthquake swarms suggest that the magma is moving.

In 2010 and 2011, a team of researchers, led by Washington University graduate student Amanda Lough, detected bursts of seismic activity—at least 1,370 earthquakes centered deep beneath Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land in the continent’s West Antarctic Ice Sheet. “We interpret the swarm events as deep long-period earthquakes based on their unusual frequency content. Such earthquakes occur beneath active volcanoes, are caused by deep magmatic activity and, in some cases, precede eruptions,” the scientists write in their study.

The sighting of the earthquake swarms isn’t a guarantee of an impending eruption, they say. But swarms have been seen in advance of eruptions before, like in 1991′s Mount Pinatubo eruption. The earthquakes are caused by the changes in pressure exerted on the subsurface rock as magma moves around, deep within the Earth.

If volcanic activity were to start, says Lough and her team, it would take a wildly powerful eruption to cut all the way to the surface—the ice in the area is more than a half-mile thick. Even a small eruption, though, could be important, as it would likely melt a bunch of the western ice sheet, contributing to sea level rise or creating a layer of water along the bottom of glaciers, making it easier for ice to slide into the sea.
 
Here are a few illustrations of the extend of the ice sheet over Northern Eurasia during the last period of glaciation:
http://map.igras.ru/files/bl..2011.04.28.14.36.07..7.jpg
http://www.landscape.edu.ru/images/maps/fgr/rus_atlas_quaternary_glaciation.jpg
http://ice.tsu.ru/files/paul/files/paul/Jur.jpg
http://www.bizslovo.org/content/images/stories/torop/istoriya/karta1_ru.jpg
I thought the Russians might have some more details than the usual Wikipage and sure enough.
 

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In the last post, I left out some folks, here we go, this own shows the Northern hemisphere, but it does not cover all the seas, or is is just that tilt of the Earth shifted?
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This map shows how the ice moved over Northern Eurasia http://doklad-referat.ru/public/page_images/729/77.jpg The extend of the ice is somewhat larger than previously shown, perhaps it refers to a different ice age. Irrespective of the extend of the ice sheet, the tendency will be to move from the areas of higher altitude towards areas of less altitude. Since mountains get snow first and are colder in summer, this is were the ice will pile up. What is great about this map is that one can see where modern day towns are, so if one is in Volgograd, Samara, Yekatarinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, or Chelyabinsk there will be no skiing in summer :)
 

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thorbiorn said:
In the last post, I left out some folks, here we go, this own shows the Northern hemisphere, but it does not cover all the seas, or is is just that tilt of the Earth shifted?
http://ice.tsu.ru/files/paul/WorldLGMr.jpg

Earth shift is a definite possibility. Do you know to what period (which ice age) this ice cover model refers to?
 
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