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===A new NASA study found that there has been a net increase in land ice in Antarctica in recent years, despite a decline in some parts of the continent. The study's lead author astutely predicted that climate science deniers would distort the study, even though it does nothing to contradict the scientific consensus on climate change or the fact that sea levels will continue to rise....<h2 style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And Other Measurements Show Net Loss Of Antarctic Ice In Recent Years</h2>NASA's Gavin Schmidt: "I Would Pin More Weight" To Recent Data From NASA GRACE Satellite "Than To This Latest Paper." VICE News reported:<blockquote style="font-size: small; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gavin Schmidt, who directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and was not affiliated with the study, said that data from a pair of satellites called GRACE, which measure gravity, actually points towards a net loss of ice on the Antarctic continent in more recent years.Schmidt said that there are two methods for measuring the mass of an ice sheet. The first measures gravity, and the second measures the elevation of the top of the ice sheet. Both methods need to take different variables into account to be accurate. The method used in this most recent study measured the ice sheet's elevation, and the most recent time period it considered ended in 2008."I would pin more weight to the GRACE data than to this latest paper," Schmidt told VICE News. [VICE News, <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/just-because-antarctica-might-be-gaining-ice-doesnt-mean-climate-change-isnt-happening" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>]</blockquote>Slate's Phil Plait: Since End Of Study Dataset In 2008, Antarctic Ice Loss Has Greatly Accelerated. Slate science writer Phil Plait wrote:<blockquote style="font-size: small; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A new study just published in the Journal of Glaciology is causing some buzz in climate circles, because it appears to claim that Antarctica -- long thought to be losing ice at extremely alarming rates -- is actually gaining ice. However, note the word "appear". The reality is more complicated, and in the end the important aspect of this is that the study only talks about part of Antarctica, and only used data up to 2008. Both of these points are critical.[...]They looked at data going from 1992 - 2008. Starting right around that time, mass loss due to melting ice in Antarctica (mostly in the west) has accelerated. It's actually been speeding up for some time, but in recent years it's really kicked in. Every year, about six billion more tons of ice are lost than the year before. In the past two decades, the loss rate has doubled.This is enough to easily outpace the mass gained by snowfall over East Antarctica. Using data taken by the Grace satellites (which measure how mass underneath them changes over time), we know that overall, Antarctica is currently losing more than 130 billion tons of ice per year, and again, that number is increasing every year. Since 2002 it's lost about two trillion tons of ice. [Slate, <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/11/03/antarctic_ice_still_losing_mass.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/3/15</a>]</blockquote><h2 style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255); line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Study Author Was Right: Conservative Media Used Study To Deny Climate Science Consensus</h2>Fox's Varney: Study Provides "Doubt" That "Global Warming Theories Are Going The Right Way." On the November 2 edition of Fox Business' Varney & Co., host Stuart Varney teased a segment on the NASA study by claiming it is "putting some doubt that some global warming theories are going the right way. That's NASA saying that." Varney later brought on Fox News contributor Stephen Moore, who complained that the media touts every "story that seems to validate global warming," while ignoring studies like the NASA study, which are an "indication that it's actually not happening." At the end of the segment, Moore joked that "this might be the start of another Ice Age." [Fox Business, Varney & Co., <a href="http://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/11/02/42925/fbn-varney-20151102-antarctictease" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/11/02/42924/fbn-varney-20151102-antarcticclip" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>]Drudge Report Hyped NASA Study Underneath Headline About Putin Calling Global Warming "A Fraud." The Drudge Report, a highly trafficked conservative news aggregator, linked to the Christian Science Monitor's article on the NASA study with the headline "Antarctica gaining ice ..." The headline was placed beneath another headline that stated: "PUTIN: Global Warming 'A Fraud'..." (as well as a headline touting the baseless claim that the United Nations is planning to create a "climate justice" court):<img src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/uploader/image/2015/11/02/drudgeicescreencap.jpg" alt="drudge" width="365" height="103" style="border: none; outline: none; display: block; margin: 0px auto 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 645px; border-radius: 2px; clear: right;" />[Drudge Report Archives, <a href="http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2015/11/02/20151102_125503.htm" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>; Media Matters, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/03/right-wing-media-baselessly-warn-of-internation/206599" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/3/15</a>]Limbaugh Criticized Media Outlet For Reporting That Study Does Not Disprove Global Warming. On the November 2 edition of his show, Rush Limbaugh criticized the Christian Science Monitor for reporting that the NASA study is not evidence that "global warming is over":<blockquote style="font-size: small; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">LIMBAUGH: Is global warming over? No, no, of course not. We're not supposed to assume that! We only assume when the ice is melting that there is global warming. But when the ice is expanding? No, no, no, no, no. That does not mean that there isn't any global warming! See how this works? [Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/11/02/42928/pri-rush-20151102-icecapsgrowing" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>;Christian Science Monitor, <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1101/Antarctica-is-actually-gaining-ice-says-NASA.-Is-global-warming-over" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/1/15</a>]</blockquote>American Thinker: "The Fraud Is Falling Apart." Conservative blog American Thinker published a blog post headlined: "Oh-oh! NASA study finds Antarctic ice cap growing." In it, American Thinker asserted that the global warming "fraud" is "falling apart." [American Thinker, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/ohoh_nasa_study_finds_antarctic_ice_cap_growing.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>]The Telegraph: Antarctic Ice Growing "Despite Fears Over Global Warming." The Telegraph reported: "Antarctica's ice floes have been found to be growing faster than they are shrinking despite fears over global warming." [The Telegraph, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/11970682/NASA-reveals-that-Antarctica-is-actually-gaining-ice.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>]The Daily Express: "What Global Warming?" The Daily Express published an article headlined, "What global warming? Antarctic ice is INCREASING by 135 billion tonnes a year, says NASA." The article asserted: "Global warming theories have been thrown into doubt after Nasa also claimed current horror predictions into future sea-level rises may not be as severe." [The Daily Express, <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/616356/What-global-warming-Nasa-Antarctic-ice-INCREASING-135BILLION-TONNES-year" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/2/15</a>]Newsmax: "NASA Debunks Global Warming." Right-wing website Newsmax published an article headlined: "NASA Debunks Global Warming: Ice Sheets Growing." [Newsmax, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/antarctic-ice-gain/2015/11/01/id/700061/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">11/1/15</a>]Conservative Media Have History Of Distorting Scientific Research To Fit Deniers' Agenda. Over the past several years, scientists have frequently had to call out right-wing media for distorting their studies to promote climate science denial. [Media Ma<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/04/nasa-scientist-warned-deniers-would-distort-his/206612" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/04/nasa-scientist-warned-deniers-would-distort-his/206612</a>---