Antarctica Bulking Up and Being Trimmed
The British Antarctic Survey has discovered volcanoes under the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the water they create under the ice largely explains phenomena like the Ross Ice Sheet shedding due to the accelerated movement this causes.

Combine this with the satelite data that indicates Antarctica is actually growing in mass and you definately have an inconvenient truth. Antarctica is growing because of increased precipitation and its reduction in suface area is the result of volcanoes.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
[…] It is relatively well established that the penninsula reaching out toward South America warmed like the rest of the world up until 2006 or so unlike the rest of the continent. Also, there is some recent work showing that volcanoes in this area have a huge impact on the calving of ice sheets in the region. […]