Amundsen

“Prospective actors steer clear of Mark Measures. He is a con artist,” actor Kate Amundsen wrote in a comment posted last July.

Famed explorer Roald Amundsen was perhaps the first to recognize the importance of ice rises.

This mechanism contributes substantially to the melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica.

Some of it appears to be caused by cyclical factors, and could be fueled by phenomena such as the interactions between the Amundsen Sea Low and Southern Annular Mode.

"Our work provides robust new evidence that glacier retreat in the Amundsen Sea was initiated in the mid-twentieth century, likely associated with climate variability," the scientists write in their paper.