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A flood of biblical proportions could wipe out New York City
http://nypost.com ^ | 11/28/2016 | Jasper Hamill

Posted on 11/28/2016 1:54:42 PM PST by heterosupremacist

“It’s generally accepted that it’s no longer a question of whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt, it’s a question of when,” said Ian Howat, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.

“We may see a significant collapse of West Antarctica in our lifetimes.”

In 2013, a gigantic rift began forming within a valley in the ice of the Pine Island Glacier.

Then, in 2015, a 225-square-mile iceberg broke off and floated away. Discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending for 19 miles, the crack was 260 feet wide and 195 feet deep.Photo: NASA

Howat said this could indicate that the massive slab of ice was being eaten away from the inside out.

“Rifts usually form at the margins of an ice shelf, where the ice is thin and subject to shearing that rips it apart,” he added.

“However, this latest event in the Pine Island Glacier was due to a rift that originated from the center of the ice shelf and propagated out to the margins.”

“This implies that something weakened the center of the ice shelf, with the most likely explanation being a crevasse melted out at the bedrock level by a warming ocean.”

The ice sheet has previously been described as an “awakened giant” and is mostly made up of glaciers sitting on top of a layer of bedrock.

If it melts, it would add vast amounts of water into the oceans, sending sea levels rocketing to dangerous heights.

“The really troubling thing is that there are many of these valleys further up-glacier,” Howat added. “If they are actually sites of weakness that are prone to rifting, we could potentially see more accelerated ice loss in Antarctica.”

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To: Doc91678

And Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle. . .

To quote Instapundit:

“Faster, please. . . “


61 posted on 11/28/2016 2:49:57 PM PST by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: heterosupremacist

Usually when the sheets break off it is because of current flow shifting, or because the sheet is growing rapidly.


62 posted on 11/28/2016 2:54:49 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: heterosupremacist

NY, FL, California, ok ba bye now


63 posted on 11/28/2016 2:54:56 PM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: heterosupremacist
Ian Howat, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.

I'm not going to lose sleep over the guess work of an associate professor.

64 posted on 11/28/2016 3:08:08 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Crack kills


65 posted on 11/28/2016 3:12:31 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: heterosupremacist

I stopped reading after the first sentence.


66 posted on 11/28/2016 3:18:46 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Cicero

He looks earthy......


67 posted on 11/28/2016 3:21:11 PM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: heterosupremacist

Excellent post. I guess that’s why they call it climate change. They can’t make up their minds.

As a weather forecaster once said “If you don’t like the weather today, it will change tomorrow.”


68 posted on 11/28/2016 3:23:11 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: MattinNJ
Interesting theory that a meteor or comet hit polar cap 12,000 years ago which caused great flood. Lot of evidence to back it up. Dovetails with Plato’s timeline of destruction of Atlantis

And all this time I thought it was all those dogsled SUV's.

69 posted on 11/28/2016 3:24:35 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: stanne; Doc91678
Suffolk County, the eastern HALF of Long Island is red. Trump country.

As is Richmond County, a.k.a. Staten Island.

70 posted on 11/28/2016 3:31:07 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: heterosupremacist

If it melted at the bedrock, wouldn’t that mean the rock warmed, not the ocean?


71 posted on 11/28/2016 3:31:50 PM PST by phs3 (FUBO)
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To: heterosupremacist
If this is a net positive for global warming, I'm firing up my wood stove, NOW.


72 posted on 11/28/2016 3:32:28 PM PST by Viking2002 (My attitude in your rear view mirror may be bigger than it appears......)
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To: safeasthebanks

The WAIS is classified as a marine-based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies well below sea level and its edges flow into floating ice shelves. The WAIS is bounded by the Ross Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf, and outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea.


73 posted on 11/28/2016 3:38:45 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: safeasthebanks

The WAIS is classified as a marine-based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies well below sea level and its edges flow into floating ice shelves. The WAIS is bounded by the Ross Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf, and outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea.


74 posted on 11/28/2016 3:38:46 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Hiro Protaginast

The WAIS is classified as a marine-based ice sheet, meaning that its bed lies well below sea level and its edges flow into floating ice shelves. The WAIS is bounded by the Ross Ice Shelf, the Ronne Ice Shelf, and outlet glaciers that drain into the Amundsen Sea.


75 posted on 11/28/2016 3:39:09 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: heterosupremacist
A flood of biblical proportions could wipe out New York City

Sounds like a job for Ghostbusters.

76 posted on 11/28/2016 3:40:29 PM PST by AU72
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To: El Cid

I agree - just “mocking” the papers understanding of God’s power.


77 posted on 11/28/2016 3:43:40 PM PST by impactplayer
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To: Texas Eagle

“Human Sacrifice....Dogs and Cats living together...Mass Hysteria.”


78 posted on 11/28/2016 3:45:49 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: heterosupremacist
I am merely making an observation ~ if NYC were to be suddenly annihilated, I would lose blood relatives, many friends, and acquaintances - But I could deal with it....

This "sudden" melting of the Antarctic ice would take hundreds if not thousands of years. Just warn your family to warn their great, great grandchildren to leave New York, and then go read a nice book or something and consider it fixed.

79 posted on 11/28/2016 3:46:35 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: dfwgator

Could be worse. Could be the target of a Holy Hand Grenade.


80 posted on 11/28/2016 3:48:55 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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