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Posted on 01/21/2019 3:30:45 PM PST by EdnaMode
Greenland’s enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the world within two decades, scientists said in a study published on Monday.
The Arctic is warming at twice the average rate of the rest of the planet, and the new research adds to the evidence that the ice loss in Greenland, which lies mainly above the Arctic Circle, is speeding up as the warming increases. The authors found that ice loss in 2012 was nearly four times the rate in 2003, and after a lull in 2013-14, it has resumed.
The study is the latest in a series of papers published this month suggesting that scientific estimates of the effects of a warming planet have been, if anything, too conservative. Just a week ago, a separate study of ice loss in Antarctica found that the continent is contributing more to rising sea levels than previously thought.
Another new analysis suggested that the oceans are warming far faster than earlier estimates. Warming oceans are currently the leading cause of sea-level rise, since water expands as it warms.
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“Tipping point”???
Did they confer with Hank Johnson?????
“Tipping Point” — like, the ice sheet might slide off and Greenland will tip over?
Like that island that’s going to tip over?
Sorry, way past buying anything coming out of the NYT.
“Greenland’s enormous ice sheet is melting at such an accelerated rate that it may have reached a “tipping point,” and could become a major factor in sea-level rise around the world within two decades, scientists said in a study published on Monday.”
Probably not.
I remember the EXACT same report 20 years ago. The ice is still there, oceans haven’t risen, global temps haven either. Prepare for cold. Winter is coming...thanks to the Solar Minimum.
The scientists are saying the sea levels will rise 3 to 4 feet or something. Since the oceans cover 70% of the earth that is going to take more than just the ice from Greenland.
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They want more ice and snow?
Come and get some off my driveway.
Don’t care...
LIES. Lies to pump up the financial scheme of “global warming”.
A two decade tipping point?
I don’t think tipping point means what they think it means.
A photo of Goebbels would be appropriate here.
Easy Fix: Get some reeeaaallllyyy long cables and strap Guam to Greenland then both will be just fine. Everything will balance out.
They want you money now and if the Seas don’t raise LOL sucker we got your money
But if you raise taxes, kill off the coal and oil and gas industries and pay China and India gobs of money to keep building coal electric plants, then it won’t “tip.”
Who are these politically compromised “scientists”? All these nitwits want is yet more grant money from the public trough. They should be shunned and exiled for their repeated idiocy and ignorance. “Scientists” may a**...
Gee, I wonder why Greenland is called “Greenland”.
*globaloney hoaxer ping*
I don’t think science exists anymore.
It has been corrupted by politics much like everything else mankind does these days.
Once honesty is gone, nothing means anything.
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