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Re: Ars Technica's Antarctica study is an outlier.

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Ars Technica's Antarctica study is an outlier.
Date 2015-11-06 17:02 -0700
Message-ID <D2628DAB.62FB3%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <Jeff-Relf.Me@Nov.6{9.33A.Seattle.2015}> <D26241E3.62F0E%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Nov.6{10.47A.Seattle.2015}> <D2624A4F.62F19%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Nov.6{0.43P.Seattle.2015}>

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On 11/6/15, 1:43 PM, in article Jeff-Relf.Me@Nov.6{0.43P.Seattle.2015},
"Jeff-Relf.Me" <@.> wrote:

> ?
> @Snit wrote:
>> Here is the article I was talking about: <http://arsTechnica.com/?p=772559>.
>> [ Study concludes Antarctica is gaining ice, rather than losing it ]
>> 
>> I have NOT read it... and so you know where I am coming from
>> I am most certainly not a science denier,
>> hence the reason the headline was surprising to me.
> 
> Ars Technica's Antarctica study is an outlier.
> 
> They say: <<
> 
>   Since there are a lot of important variables in the calculations
>   -- Antarctica’s rebounding bedrock is a particularly significant one --
>   there are lots of things for scientists to argue about.
> 
>   In fact, Zwally and his co-authors argue that
>   their preferred values for some of those variables
>   can bring other analyses closer to their new numbers.
> 
>   Future research should hopefully provide some clarity
>   as to whether this study is more than a quirky outlier.
> 
>   For now, it is certainly true that it’s an outlier.  >>
> 
Fair enough.


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Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 13:19 -0600
  Re: Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-05 20:00 +0000
    Re: Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 17:02 -0600
      Re: Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-05 23:22 +0000
  Re: Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-05 15:27 -0800
    there ya go, p.b.s in the 'tudes, again noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 19:29 -0800
    Re: Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-06 11:39 -0700
      Re: Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate. R Kym Horsell <kym@kymhorsell.com> - 2015-11-06 19:04 +0000
      Re: Antarctica is losing _land_ ice at an accelerating rate. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-06 12:15 -0700
        Re: Ars Technica's Antarctica study is an outlier. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-11-06 17:02 -0700
    Re: Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-06 12:34 -0700
      Re: Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate. Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-06 14:47 -0500
      Seas near humans are losing ice. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-11-06 14:49 -0800
        Re: Seas near humans are losing ice. Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-11-06 18:48 -0500
          DumpsterDiver(tm) linux boxen are eco-friendly. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-11-06 16:37 -0800
        Re: Seas near humans are losing ice. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-06 19:45 -0700
        Re: Seas near humans are losing ice. benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 00:43 -0500
        eh noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-07 18:10 -0800
      Re: Antarctica is losing _land_ ice at an accelerating rate. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-06 19:44 -0700
  Re: Is Antarctica Losing Ice or Gaining It? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-06 15:07 -0800

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