Underwater robot confirms Antarctic ice is thicker than previously estimated

This will not come as a shock to the climate scientists who last December took a trip to the Antarctic to prove the ice caps were melting only to get stuck in the non-existent ice, but a British underwater robot has completed two expeditions under the Antarctic ice and has confirmed that it is thicker than the previous estimates.

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“Our surveys indicate that the floes are much thicker and more deformed than reported by most drilling and ship-based measurements of Antarctic sea ice,” the team reported in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday. “Mean drafts range from 1.4 to 5.5 metres, with maxima up to 16 metres. “We suggest that thick ice in the near-coastal and interior pack may be under-represented in existing in situ assessments of Antarctic sea ice and hence, on average, Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought.” The survey was carried out by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), dubbed SeaBED, which has spent the past four years surveying 500,000 square metres of ice thicknesses in the Weddell, Bellingshausen and Wilkes Land sections of Antarctica for British, US and Australian scientists.

Undeterred from their plight the climate scientists aboard the Australasian Antarctic Expedition which was stuck in the ice tried to claim that the fact they found ice where it was not expected was more proof that global warming exists and I am sure the authors of this study at Nature Geoscience are somehow going to make the same claim.