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Posted on 01/24/2015 7:07:43 AM PST by PROCON
The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will get its revenge.
Last year, we learned what is probably the worst global warming news yet — that we may have irrevocably destabilized the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica, which contains the equivalent of nearly 11 feet of sea level rise. The rate of West Antarctic ice loss has been ominously increasing, and there are fears that if too much goes, the slow and long-term process of ice sheet disintegration could accelerate.
Humans have a hard time conceiving of the incredible scale of an ice sheet, so the consequences of such a change can be lost upon us. But in a new paper in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers — Forensic Engineering, researchers Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., and John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. – summarize what we now know about West Antarctica. That includes a finding that may serve as a wake-up call for Americans in particular.
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Good name for a Global Warming Rock Group:
Desperation Squared
My Sig says it all
In the US the blue areas are the coasts, so not my problem.
The only answer is global wealth redistribution - equal poverty for all (except for Algore and his billionaire pals!)
Wood pulp/paper manufacturing is among the dirtiest industries in the world and one of the largest energy users. It’s well past time for a serious surcharge on heavy users of the dirtiest of paper products - newsprint. Users should be responsible for the air and water contaminants released in the production of newsprint, as well as being responsible for the waste created in disposing of the final product. It’s not hyperbole to notice that the world’s natural resources would benefit from eliminating the production of newsprint.
I wonder what Chris Mooney has to say about it.
That’s the way it happens, the ground settles giving the illusion the sea is rising ....
China pumps out far more crap than anyone else.
I guess in liberal global warming minds that all magically becomes rainbows and smurf droppings.
Bookmarking post#30, Global Warming predictions they’d rather you forget about
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Don’t you even dare to bring science into this discussion. It’s an emotional issue that needs to be solved! ;-)
'Way back in my grad school days, the typical reference to "those government grant seeking" researchers (of all types, not just the ecofreaks) was simply to call them Grant Whores.
Walk through their office door, plop down a fat wad of bills, tell 'em what the "study" should conclude, leave for a two-martini lunch and they'd have a carefully printed and bound bale of BS ready to take on your return flight. Then, they would rush out to "publish" this drivel (usually in a journal-of-something-or-other that was operated by some ex-GH's who had decided to diversify) or maybe even get high enough in the Con to have WaPo print the mess as has occurred here.
They can call it whatever they want, but it's not science, it's not scholarly and it's not even particularly amusing any more. (The lack of amusement is mine, mostly because my degrees just happen to have come from study at the University of Colorado, Boulder.)
AGW (or any alias you happen to like) is a confidence game.
Only difference between these con artists and the one downtown with the "genuine" Rolex watch for sale is that the phoney Rolex might cost you a hundred bucks and these AGW hustlers want trillions.
...plus total control over every person on the planet, if they can push the con that far.
JMHO, it's time to stop laughing at these characters and begin prosecuting them as the frauds they are.
...or maybe just cut to the chase and organize a few baths in tar & feathers, followed by a ride on a rail outta here.
Mooney is loony. Plus being stupid and incompetent.
The problem with the West Antarctic ice sheet is its instability. The mass of the ice sheet depresses the mantel below it, so that the bottom is below sea level. As it melts, the mantel will rise, causing the bulk of sheet to be above sea level and slide into the ocean, raising sea level about 10 feet over the next 200-1000 years.
Since the average annual temp. of the Antarctic is around -45 F, there’s gonna have to be a heck of a lot of warming to melt all that ice.
It is times like these that remind me of that wonderful quote from yet another ‘climate expert’ Steven Schneider: “Each of us must decide between being effective, and being honest.”
If up until now we use /s to indicate sarcasm, can we all now agree that /sc indicates scambo?
It also reminds me of many of the socalled ‘experts’ on the IPCC who turn out to be economists...
Both solutions cost too much... A simple hanging or burning at the stake are both lighter on the taxpayers wallet.
See how “our guilt” works ! Our goverment’s MSM (ministry of socialist mendacity) feeds its favorite “newspaper of record” gossip collumnist some selective statistic finding which goes unchallanged. Which reports globull catasstrophy citing some obscure on the dole source. That gets confirmed by another on the dole academic. The cause is “our guilt”. And that gets picked up and distributed because It’s Our Fault.
The writer needs to do an on-site study of the South Antarctic ice sheet.
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