Posted on 05/22/2014 10:51:45 AM PDT by mojito
The global warming hysterics’ favorite fantasy these days is that Antarctic ice will melt due to hypothetical warming, leading to catastrophic flooding as the level of the oceans rises. It is commonly asserted that sea level will rise at least three feet by the end of the century. Put aside whether the Earth actually will warm and whether a three-foot rise would really be catastrophic. Put aside, too, any doubts about how much melting will occur even if the Earth warms by a few degrees, given that the average annual high temperature in Antarctica is -49 F. Does the reality of melting ice bear any mathematical relation to the oft-predicted flood scenario?
A reader who is familiar with geometry and arithmetic–which means he is not a reporter–decided to test the hysterical claim....
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Worry causes wrinkles.
Two things that always cracked me up about the Antarctica ice thing was, to just stay very simple: It would still be way below freezing there if their predictions come true, so melting would be minimal. There are many areas there that are so cold that there is bare ground without precipitation, which means as it warms up, it would snow more, creating LARGER and deeper snowpacks/glaciers.
My 12-year-old posed the following question to his science teacher a few weeks ago.
“When the ice my sweet tea melts, the glass doesn’t overflow. Why will the oceans overflow just because the polar ice caps melt?”
The reply: “It’s complicated.”
I say we condemn all the property in Miami on the beachfronts, and in Malibu, and in Martha’s Vineyard, Kennybunkport, St. Simons Island and everywhere else rich liberals live - to protect them from the rising tides for their own good. Give them a Section 8 home in the city.
Math is hard!
These shysters get away with it because our LIV’s can’t do math.
The upper east side of Manhattan will be underwater, so following your recommendations I submit that the government should move all these rich and traumatized liberals to somewhere safe, and deep in flyover country, like Wichita or Omaha. They'll be safe there.
And liberals laugh at and ridicule conservative Christians who believe in the literal account of Noah's flood.
The answer to his question is not complicated and doesn’t require advanced math beyond a 12-year-old’s abilities. (The polar ice caps aren’t floating. You know, like Guam is. Heh.)
Global-warming pushers scorn any attempt by “climate-change deniers” to analyze the observed data because their house of cards will fall apart.
I’m all for a flood, a flood of jobs.
No jobs is the worst catastrophe we are facing now, and it without a doubt; is man made, and man can fix it, but we need a man to stand in the gap.
I use the word “MAN” in a mankind sense, knowing Sarah and some other woman, could lead, God willing.
When God brought Eve to Adam, Adam’s first words where “Whoa! Man”!
Bangor Daily News
Melting sea ice could make Maine hub of new international shipping routes
By Cameron Paquette,
Posted May 22, 2014, at 2:17 p.m.
BANGOR, Maine — Maine is in a position to capitalize on emerging shipping lanes in the Arctic Sea in a major way, which could see the state become a hub of international trade in the Northeast.
This was the general consensus among military, business and education officials gathered at the Leadership in the High North symposium in Bangor.
The Maine National Guard, in conjunction with the University of Maine and international and regional partners, hosted the two-day symposium at the Maine National Guard Regional Training Center in Bangor. Although international trade opportunities were a major focal point, the issue of international conflict was also very much present in the conversation.
“Geopolitical conflicts are certain to arise as countries debate over whether a route is a port of national interest or an international trade route,” said John Henshaw, executive director of the Maine Port Authority.
“This is a high-priority issue for Maine and the country,” said Sen. Angus King in a video message to the audience.
“All of us learned about explorers looking for the Northwest Passage that [explorers] could never find. Now we’ve found it,” King said. “This will be a part of global trade in the future … it requires a level of international cooperation.”
. . .
Meanwhile here in Maine, they are looking at the economic opportunities.
The one I tend to get back is, what about the ice on the glaciers that are not already in the water?
I usually offer up, “so you mean to tell me that a chunk of ice sitting on a glacier will break and magically slide several miles out to sea where the mass of the chunk of ice will be so great that it will raise the level of the ocean? In certain spots no less?”
At the point, before I am called a racist I finish with, “china burns more coal than the entire world combined. I don’t see any environmentalists or scientists telling the Chinese what needs to be done to fix climate change.”
Don’t forget that it should be Section 8 housing and/or FEMA trailers. Nothing else.
I should clarify for lurkers: Antarctic = land bordered by water; Arctic = water bordered by land.
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