<div dir="ltr"><h1><font size="2"><p class="gmail-Tweet-text gmail-e-entry-title" lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warming-hoax/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-global-warming-hoax/</a></p><p class="gmail-Tweet-text gmail-e-entry-title" lang="en">Verified quotes from Donald Trump from Snopes:</p><p class="gmail-Tweet-text gmail-e-entry-title" lang="en" dir="ltr">"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."</p><div class="gmail-Tweet-metadata gmail-dateline"><time title="Time posted: November 06, 2012 19:15:52 (UTC)" class="gmail-dt-updated" datetime="2012-11-06T19:15:52+0000"><font color="#0066cc">"Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!"</font></time></div><div class="gmail-Tweet-metadata gmail-dateline"><time title="Time posted: November 06, 2012 19:15:52 (UTC)" class="gmail-dt-updated" datetime="2012-11-06T19:15:52+0000"><font color="#0066cc">--------------------------------------<span></span></font></time></div></font></h1><h1><font size="2">Nature Journal peer reviewed science article can be read at website first below</font></h1><h1><font size="4">Mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2017</font></h1><div><span><span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/<wbr>articles/s41586-018-0179-y</a></span></span></div><div><span><span></span></span><br></div><div><span><span>13 June 2018</span></span></div><div><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><span><span>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span><span><p><font size="6">Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If that continues, we are in serious trouble.</font></p><span class="gmail-hidden-xs gmail-right" id="gmail-slug_tiffany_tile" style="margin:auto"><div class="gmail-clear"><div class="gmail-pb-container"><section class="gmail-col-xl-9 gmail-col-lg-8 gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-12 gmail-col-xs-12 gmail-col-xs-offset-0 gmail-col-sm-offset-0 gmail-col-md-offset-0 gmail-col-lg-offset-0 gmail-layout" id="gmail-main-content"><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-deck" id="gmail-f8cGyU1QqzhNUq"><div class="gmail-moat-trackable gmail-pb-f-theme-normal gmail-pb-f-dehydrate-false gmail-pb-f-async-false gmail-full gmail-pb-feature gmail-pb-layout-item gmail-pb-f-article-article-body" id="gmail-fSBB0g1QqzhNUq"><div id="gmail-pb-article-body-author-modals"><div class="gmail-article-body gmail-content-format-ans" id="gmail-article-body"><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column"><span class="gmail-pb-byline"><span class="gmail-byline-role">by </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/chris-mooney/"><span><font color="#0066cc">Chris Mooney</font></span></a></span> <span class="gmail-pb-timestamp">June 13</span></div><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column"><span class="gmail-pb-timestamp"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column"><span class="gmail-pb-timestamp"><span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7eb7e0bd91bd">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/antarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7eb7e0bd91bd</a></span></span></div><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column"><span class="gmail-pb-timestamp"><span><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail-pb-sig-line gmail-hasnt-headshot gmail-has-0-headshots gmail-hasnt-bio gmail-is-not-column"><span class="gmail-pb-timestamp"><span><span><p>Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 billion tons of ice into the ocean annually and raising sea levels a half-millimeter every year, a team of 80 scientists reported Wednesday.</p><p>The melt rate has tripled in the past decade, the study concluded. If the acceleration continues, some of scientists’ worst fears about rising oceans could be realized, leaving low-lying cities and communities with less time to prepare than they had hoped.</p><p>The result also reinforces that nations have a short window — perhaps no more than a decade — to cut greenhouse-gas emissions if they hope to avert some of the worst consequences of climate change.</p><p>Antarctica, the planet’s largest ice sheet, lost 219 billion tons of ice annually from 2012 through 2017 — approximately triple the 73 billion-ton melt rate of a decade ago, the scientists concluded. From 1992 through 1997, Antarctica lost 49 billion tons of ice annually.</p><p>The study is the product of a large group of Antarctic experts who collectively reviewed 24 recent measurements of Antarctic ice loss, reconciling their differences to produce the most definitive figures yet on changes in Antarctica. Their results — known formally as the “<a href="http://imbie.org/about-the-project/"><font color="#0066cc">Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise</font></a>” (IMBIE) — were <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0179-y" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">published Wednesday in the journal Nature</font></a>.<span></span></p></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></span></span></span></div><div><span><span>---------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span><span>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></span></span></div><span><p><br></p><span></span></span></div>