Posted on 10/01/2014 5:36:52 PM PDT by raptor22
Climate Change: A startling claim has been made by the European Space Agency. It says that loss of ice in the West Antarctic has caused a shift in Earth's gravity. So are polar bears about to drown or fly off into space?
To the list of things caused by global warming, including rising seas, fiercer and more frequent storms, forest fires and widespread disease, we can now add a weakening of gravity due to melting ice.
Based on measurements from a European Space Agency's satellite, researchers have said that so much ice loss has occurred in West Antarctica that there's been a decline in Earth's gravitational pull in the region.
Although the researchers assure us the gravity's loss from November 2009 to June 2012 is too small to actually cause things to levitate into space, it's cited as one more example of the impact of so-called man-made global warming.
Climate-change zealots seem obsessed with the West Antarctic ice sheet, which holds less than 10% of the continent's ice . The 2004 science fiction movie "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with a portion of the sheet shearing off as a prelude to planetary doom.
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total bs
And a writer or a gullible public who can’t distinguish between a scientific measurement that is merely detectable vs. significant.
Earth’s gravity remains the same even if there is a microscopic redistribution of it. The Earth’s mass doesn’t change regardless of the change of state of some Antarctic seawater. The portion of the Earth’s mass represented by that ice is minuscule.
Watch, though, the hysteria build. And these are the people who want to throw us into Gulag, because “Science!”
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Exactly. Plus the gravity change can be due to other factors. There are much larger gravity changes in other parts of the world that they don’t want to tell you about.
Most of their claims are so outrageous that it reminds me of the comic book plots of the 40s and 50s. They were exciting reading for children but adults were not as impressed.
Most melting caused by under-ice volcanoes, right?
Indeed, its a major factor.
If this is a true feedback loop we could end up with summery temperatures in the Antarctica but a complete lack of gravity in that hemisphere and a corresponding huge ice cap in the North with gravity twice as strong as before.
We can't wait to see if this will happen. We need to alter our behavior now!
And less powerful and less frequent storms, they forgot that one.
That’s what I’ve read from several sources.
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“.......a shift in Earth’s gravity.....” !!!!!!
OMG...... does this mean that I really didn’t recently lose over 40 pounds..... I just feel lighter???
If this continues, will my bride’s butt look big???
If I stay up for more than 4 hours, it’s just the lack of gravity and I don’t have to call my doctor??
I am so sick of this hard sell on lib nonsense.
....because it weighs so much less after it melts! D'oh! Besides, doesn't The Won provide more than enough "gravitas" to make up any shortfall??
I'd have assumed he was out golfing like usual. Is he not?
End global weather!!!
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