Posted on 05/21/2017 7:39:51 AM PDT by rktman
The New York Times has taken warnings about global warming to a whole new level, publishing a three-part series suggesting a “potential apocalypse” from melting ice sheets if humans keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
“If that ice sheet were to disintegrate, it could raise the level of the sea by more than 160 feet — a potential apocalypse, depending on exactly how fast it happened,” NYT reporter Justin Gillis wrote of what some scientists predict could happen to Antarctica.
Gillis points to recent research suggesting “the collapse of the ice sheet will become inevitable,” likening the projected 160-foot sea-level rise to flood stories from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Bible’s Old Testament.
“In the Epic of Gilgamesh, waters so overwhelm the mortals that the gods grow frightened, too,” Gillis wrote, “In India’s version, Lord Vishnu warns a man to take refuge in a boat, carrying seeds. In the Bible, God orders Noah to carry two of every living creature on his ark.”
“I don’t think the biblical deluge is just a fairy tale,” Terence Hughes, a retired glaciologist told Gillis. “I think some kind of major flood happened all over the world, and it left an indelible imprint on the collective memory of mankind that got preserved in these stories.”
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OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
“I see a 392 Scat Pack in my future.” Yeah Buddy! ;-)
The fastest way to flood the Earth is with the massive amount of water, three times the water in all are oceans, that is stored in the mantle, between 300 and 450 miles deep, in a mineral called Ringwoodite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite
So the big question becomes what would destabilize it enough for there to be a massive release of water?
If "ifs and buts" were peanuts and nuts, what a party we would have!
The classless and clueless NYT is way over their collective heads, not in water, but in understanding the weakness of their wild speculations.
It is like being aware that the lowest possible score for 18 holes of golf is 18. So the NYT predicts or, more likely, wishfully thinks, that we are all doomed because we will not listen to them and bow to those who want to control our lives. It is more likely for someone to score 18 for 18 holes of golf!
Their scaremongering cannot be supported by facts and statistics and science. The NYT are on equal par with people carrying placards that say "The End is Near." It is nonsense.
It is time for the NYT to go away and come back later, maybe two generations later.
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think
the UN’s Scientific committee estimates sea rise-
+4mm a year or around an inch every 10 years.
So even if you believe the ‘97% of Scientists’ lie, you are
predicting a trivial amount of sea level rise.
Good! As the waves wash over and drive the remaining libtoids inland, we’ll post the western border for any stragglers.
They sure do, and it’s pure horse manure.
A lot of us in Alberta make a good wage, but with all the changes and the taxation, it’s still tough.
Also, Trudeau is hurting the dollar so much that it’s making it far more difficult for things to be affordable.
Shouldn't the New York Times be addressing their concerns to China?
So it is spoken, so it shall be done.
Their insane hatred of Trump has created a job market for these drunken idiots. They call themselves SJW warriors resisting Trump!
The floating ice will not contribute anything at all to sea level - it displaces its own weight of water (like any floating thing) and when melted would fill the ‘hole’ exactly. That means that the north polar ice cap would have minimal effect on sea levels. The ice sheet on Greenland would contribute to sea level rise. The Antarctic ice is mostly on dry land, however, although some of it is floating and some of it is resting on the sea floor. The floating bit won’t change sea level. The resting bit will contribute to sea level changes depending on what portion of it is above sea level, and the ice on dry land - that’s most of it - would all contribute to raising sea level. I don’t recall the exact amount, but it would be over the 160 feet mentioned above. In addition, once you removed the ice from Antarctica, the continent itself would uplift, displacing yet more water and raising sea levels by some additional amount.
For all of that to happen, however, you’d have to raise the temperature of the entire planet substantially. That isn’t happening - in fact, the temperature is at the peak of the 60-year cycle and the range of the 60-year cycle of temperatures is only enough to make useful idiots of the alarmist persuasion wet their pants with either an imminent flood or an imminent ice age.
In any case, your calculations are incomplete. You have to account for ice on land - you assumed it was all floating, which is untrue. There is a whole continent under ice at the south pole. You also would have to account for continental uplift once the ice was gone. That would be a smaller contribution.
Regardless, though, the amount the temperature would have to rise to initially melt the ice caps is well beyond even deliberate human capability.
“If it wasn’t for global warming, Chicago would still be under a mile of ice.”
IOW, global warming has already produced at least one terrible disaster. ;-)
Good idea and we are going to attempt to warm local areas as we slip back into the cold ice age period. But humans do not have a tenth of the power required to stop the ice age on a planetary level. And there is no way melting ice due to warming now will cause as much flooding as they project. The massive flooding already occurred when we warmed and came out of the last cold ice age. The flooding that will come now, as we slip back into the ice age, will mainly occur in tropical and sub temperate locations as the glacier building rains/snow begin once again. A different type of flooding. The oceans are invading the land. And every spring the snow melts will be massive as the planet shrugs apes off its surface once again.
Didn’t the NYT print a similar story back in 1976?
I believe they did.
5.56mm
That’s the rent a mob thugs....I was referring to the “J school” grads
Would that be The FAILING New York Times? With all their fake news, even if this were true, why would anyone believe it?
Yeah, everything I read points to the SP being the right convergence of price, performance and style for me. Don’t feel the need for a Hellcat for bragging rights. Drove a 5.7 Hemi Shaker at the auto show, and it was awesome, but the SP is just a little awesomer. They go to the Italian chassis in 2021, so I’ve got a couple of years to nail one down.
What makes you say that? Just because the CBS online front page has two, yes two, rising waters stories? One is about a Waterworld-like archipelago some guy has made up in Canada and the other is about Holland's storm surge control measures confronting "the rise of the oceans".
It's probably just a coincidence that the MSM is surging (yes pun) with these stories. It's not like they're all getting talking points from a coordinated liberal campaign (yes sarcasm).
The basic element, however, to planetary catastrophe invariably involves precession and global crust displacement.
There is, it appears, nothing we can do about either.
There's a good chance we could experience something like this in the 2030 - 2050 time frame.
In any event, the pleas and prognostications of the global warming gaggle “don't amount to a hill of beans”, if you don't mind me quoting Bogie! ;-)
What say you on this? Inquiring minds want to know!
CA....
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