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Posted on 05/18/2016 5:31:55 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Paris (AFP) - A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a "tipping point" of no return, researchers said Wednesday.
To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets as dangerous drivers of sea level rise.
But the new study, following up on earlier work by the same team, has identified a third major threat to hundreds of millions of people living in coastal areas around the world.
"I predict that before the end of the century the great global cities of our planet near the sea will have two- or three-metre (6.5 - 10 feet) high sea defences all around them," said Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute and Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, and the study's senior author.
From the air, the contours of Totten Glacier -- roughly the size of France -- are invisible because the entire Antarctic continent is covered by a seamless, kilometres-thick blanket of snow and ice.
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Can’t we send it on rockets to the moon and store it there ‘til we need it?
Then again, it may not.
I put ice in a glass. I fill the glass to the top. When the ice melts does the glass overflow?
I put ice in a glass. I fill the glass to the top. When the ice melts does the glass overflow?
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Not only does it overflow, it drowns any nearby polar bears!
Are we all going to die again?
Hmm, maybe the libs will give me a billion dollars if I promise to build a giant coffer dam to save NYC or LA for them?
Why should Al Gore be the only one to profit from this foolishness?
If any of the glacier is resting on the bottom, this is not true. Obviously a sufficiently large piece of ice will overflow a glass of water when it melts.
GOOD NEWS!
I HAVE JUST COMPLETED MY OWN STUDY!
This just in, Due to the increased extraction of oil from Deep Ocean Drilling Rigs, The Ocean Bottom will subside to such a degree to completely off-set the collapse of this Glacier.
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY! Go Oil!
Glaciers have been melting for 6,000 years. May be Obola will make an arc to rescue all gay animals. And there will be only one toilet.
Operative word: “Could”.
You know that oil and water don’t mix. Your evil big oil will rise to the top.. libtard gay seagulls will be floatin in oil.
The seas will rise to engulf Mt Everest I tell you is what the leftists scream. The sea levels have risen since the end of the last ice age when the big glaciers melted. The sea levels rose abut 400 ft, but in the last two hundred years the rise is not really measurable.
“Are we all going to die again?”
Everybody living today is guaranteed to die. It might take another 150 years, but we will all be dead. But disaster porn is profitable.
If there is enough ice so that its weight causes it to rest on the bottom of the glass instead of floating, then when the ice melts the glass will overflow.
Not if I vaporize it in my tail pipe!
V10 Rig Coming Through!
I was referring to the melting of the part underwater.
I want to sell tickets for that event ! We split the proceeds.
Stop Sea Level Rise, Kill Ethanol to Save the Coastal Cities!
‘Sleeping giant’ glacier may lift seas two metres: study
Or not
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