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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning (Guess who?)
Slate ^ | July 20, 2015 | Eric Holthaus

Posted on 07/23/2015 2:04:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.

The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be “substantially more persuasive than anything previously published.” I certainly find them to be....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; antarctica; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenland; hansen; jameshansen; sealevels
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Technically, yes. I guess to me that was a given because I have been very familiar with “research” for decades before I retired. Regardless, you are correct.


21 posted on 07/23/2015 3:25:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right,

Oh, please.

Hansen's predictions have been as "right" as Harold Camping's End Times dates.

Is NYC's West Side Highway twenty feet under water yet? No? Why not?

22 posted on 07/23/2015 3:27:48 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If so then why are a group of climatologists studying Arctic ice melting currently stuck in the ice?


23 posted on 07/23/2015 3:31:21 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
10 feet in 50 years. Far enough in the future that it can't be disproven within Hansen's lifetime, yet close enough to affect the chilrens. And what a nice round quotable number.
24 posted on 07/23/2015 3:32:48 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Where to begin?
The fact that Hansen's training was not in meteorology, but rather in physics and astronomy, thus rendering him no more a climate scientist than filthy rich, comical climate buffoon Al Gore?
The fact that he is called the "Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist" by the lame stream media is only because he’s served as that same lame stream media’s go-to-guy for climate lies ever since the roll-out of the global warming scam at the June 1988 congressional hearings, which later on PBS' Frontline in 2007 former Colorado Dem Senator Tim Wirth admitted to orchestrating to have the hearing room as artificially hot as could be rigged?
Give me a break.
25 posted on 07/23/2015 3:37:10 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: piasa

Well, if you look in the unabridged rulebook for inner party members, you will see that the consensus actually CAN be wrong IF the new prediction better advances the cause of socialism.


26 posted on 07/23/2015 3:40:40 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Raycpa

The last time the alarmists were right was when they were warning their tribes that the arrival of the whites wasn’t a good thing.


27 posted on 07/23/2015 3:47:55 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hansen has yet to get anything right. He is a false prophet, not a scientist. Why, in light of his miserable track record, does anybody still give this bloviating boob any credence?


28 posted on 07/23/2015 3:48:00 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
show me one, just one tidal gauge that indicates the tides on average are higher that 50 years ago....fantasy science
29 posted on 07/23/2015 3:53:12 AM PDT by B212
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To: OttawaFreeper

Has anyone done the math? I tried to do a rough estimate of how much the volume of an extra 30 feet of water (all oceans)would be. My guess was that all the land above sea level would need to be covered with ice several miles thick.

I am no math genius so I would love to see someone’s calculations of volume of water (above seal level) trapped in the Artic and Antarctic vs. what volume and additional 10 feet (3 meters)in the oceans. It could be roughed by assuming the Planet is flat, and shorelines, remain the same, all water ends up only in the oceans.


30 posted on 07/23/2015 3:53:21 AM PDT by Woodman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years."

If their previous models, from 10-20 years ago, were so far off, shouldn't we be seeing dire results today?

31 posted on 07/23/2015 3:56:46 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Florida man” will become extinct!


32 posted on 07/23/2015 4:01:38 AM PDT by gasport (Immigration reform means arriving in air-conditioned comfort.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good. If the sea level rises 10 feet, I should have beach-front property by the time I die. Keep pumping that carbon into the air!!!!


33 posted on 07/23/2015 4:04:10 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have discussions with family members....who are true believers...

I just ask them show me one, just one climate model in the last 20 years has been correct in its predictions and I will “Believe”.


34 posted on 07/23/2015 4:06:51 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Sea levels are rising! Fire famine flood!" ... {crickets} "No, really, this time we mean it. It'll be faster than we said before (which turned out to be false, but ignore that...)"

Another hysterical sky is falling prediction from the globull warming / climate change scammers. ... Yawn

35 posted on 07/23/2015 4:29:08 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Woodman

Great idea. I’m on it...


36 posted on 07/23/2015 4:31:22 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Raycpa

I think the time the dude explained the space shuttle’s O rings were flawed and everybody decided to let it go up in the air anyway ...


37 posted on 07/23/2015 4:34:51 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: exnavy

the only way not to be a denier is to go with “Climate Change”.....The libs have finally figured out how to prove that “settled science” and tax and control us in the process...


38 posted on 07/23/2015 4:37:15 AM PDT by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Danson?


39 posted on 07/23/2015 4:38:23 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Popman

What kind of model are you referring too? A local model or a world model? A model that demonstrates how fast the Greenland icefield is disappearing (because right now it is getting smaller) or a model showing the oceans warming or some other kind of model? I just worry you might have left yourself open to an attack from your family members.


40 posted on 07/23/2015 4:40:11 AM PDT by hawkaw
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