Climate Corrections

An article in The Register reports climate research by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and others. They have the following interesting findings:

The corrections for deformations of the Earth’s crust have a considerable effect on the amount of ice that is estimated to be melting each year. We have concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at approximately half the speed originally predicted. (snip) The rest of Antarctica doesn't seem to be melting at all - indeed Antarctica as a whole is actually gaining ice area rather than losing it.

"Half the speed originally predicted." Maybe the sky isn't falling after all, Chicken Little.