The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has been a source of concern for global warming alarmists who hysterically suggest that the melting of the glacier will cause a global catastrophe. But a new study has put forth an inconvenient truth for the alarmist crowd: ice loss from the Thwaites Glacier is slower than originally expected. The study, conducted by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UC Irvine, and published in the Geophysical Research Letters, used computer models of the Antarctic ice sheet and data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on the Southern Ocean to determine that prior studies of the glacier had overstated ice loss by the glacier by 7% over the next 50 years. The previous studies had two major flaws: they only focused on an ice sheet computer model and they assumed that the warm ocean water would cause cavities forming in the glacier to melt at the glacier's current melting rate. The problem with the latter assumption is that the water is unable to have as much reach in these tighter cavities, therefore the glacier melts at a slower rate. Hence, lower sea level rises.

But the global warming alarmist hysteria is undermined by this new study showing that the glacier isn't melting as fast as expected. Even if the glacier is still on track to dissolve completely that doesn't require the government to promote economic devastation.