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New NASA says Antarctica is actually gaining ice
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1101/NASA-says-Antarctica-is-actually-gaining-ice.-Does-this-mean-climate-is-fine
In a paper published in the Journal of Glaciology on Friday, researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland in College Park, and the engineering firm Sigma Space Corporation offer a new analysis of satellite data that show a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001 in the Antarctic ice sheet.
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New That's bad news
"The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away," Zwally said. "But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for."
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New Also, ...
From the final page of the paper:

While continued increases in dynamic thinning are expected in response to thinning of adjacent ice shelves in WA1 and the AP (Cook and others, 2005; Pritchard and Vaughan, 2007; Rott and others, 2011; Shuman and others, 2011; Pritchard and others, 2012), the long-term dynamic thickening in EA and WA2 should provide a significant buffer against such continued increases in mass loss. If dynamic thinning continues to increase at the same rate of 4Gta^–2 with no offset from further increases in snowfall, the positive balance of the AIS will decrease from the recent 82Gta^–1 to zero in ~20 years. However, compensating increases in snowfall with climate warming may also be expected (Gregory and Huybrechts, 2006; Winkelmann and others, 2012).


In other words, we expect the rate of melting (dynamic thinning) is going to increase. It may be that snowfall is going to increase, but (unstated) the rate might not be high enough to compensate for the increased melting... (It "may be expected" but it also might not be.)

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