Posted on 06/17/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by EdnaMode
In the future, seas will rise far higher than they are today. The question is whether it happens quickly or slowly.
There's enough ice stacked on top of Antarctica to raise seas around the globe by almost 200 feet. While it takes time for major changes to occur with that much ice, Antarctica is melting faster than we thought, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature.
The melting rate has been speeding up significantly in recent years.
Between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica lost more than 3.3 trillion tons of ice, causing sea levels around the globe to rise an average of 8 millimeters. About 40% of that loss occurred between 2012 and 2017, according to the new study. From 1992 to 2012, the continent lost about 84 billion tons of ice a year, and over the next five years, that jumped to more than 240 billion tons per year.
If the acceleration of ice melt were to continue, it could potentially cascade, leading to runaway ice melt and rapid sea level rise.
The biggest changes have come in West Antarctica, where the glaciers holding back ice sheets rest on rapidly warming ocean waters, causing them to melt more quickly.
Climate science professor Chis Rapley of the University College London has previously described Antarctica as a "slumbering giant" of ice melt and sea level rise that seems to be awakening.
"This paper suggests it is stretching its limbs," he told the UK Science Media Center.
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Global Warming is an IQ test.
This person fails.
AAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! I think I see it coming already!
What to do? Buy carbon credits from Al Gore??
Quick raise taxes, but only on americans before they are all genocided and it is too late
Oh well. Que sera sera.
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
“Just as the temperatures in some regions of the planet are colder than average, even in our warming world, Antarctic sea ice has been increasing and bucking the overall trend of ice loss.”
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum
I invite anyone who believes in global warming and the rise of the oceans to use Google Maps to examine communities around Galveston Island, particularly “Tiki Island” and “Flamingo Isles.”These are large housing developments that are actually located in the Gulf of Mexico, with canals in addition to streets.
If the sea level was rising, these communities — and hundreds of others — around the United States would be panic-selling, and would be in the process of becoming ghost towns.
You can look Tiki Island’s Wikipedia page up, and look at its population numbers for recent years. It is not a ghost town.
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/16/full-fledged-5-alarm-climate-emergency-in-antarctica/
Here are a father and son saving the continent!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/father-and-son-robert-and-barney-swan-risk-their-lives-crossing-antarctica-to-save-the-planet/
Oh no!!!!
Proof that the climate change panic is pure propaganda.
Talk to Mr. Sun.
Way more energy and impact on the earth’s climate than anything we do.
Next, talk to Mr. Volcanoes.
Nonsense.
“Slumbering giant” “stretching it’s limbs” Sounds like a sacrifice thrown in a volcano is in order. Voodoo science.
If it’s that warm at the Antarctica are people bursting into flames at the Equator ? LOL
If Kevin sends me 5K I will insure his home for 1 year against antarctic sea ice.
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