Awesome!
Posted on 08/29/2022 9:01:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own, according to a study released Monday.
Zombie or doomed ice is ice that is still attached to thicker areas of ice, but is no longer getting fed by those larger glaciers. That’s because the parent glaciers are getting less replenishing snow. Meanwhile the doomed ice is melting from climate change, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scientists had previously expected from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inches (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year 2100. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the committed melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without supporting it, Stearns said.
Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century or at least by 2150.
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“the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt”
The only accurate statement in the entire screed
I do not believe these people have a sense of proportion on how enormously LARGE the continuous oceans of Earth really are.
A greater danger of “oceans rising” is the action of tectonic plates shifting at the Mohorovičić discontinuity, the boundary layer between the earth’s molten core and the rocky crust above it.
Does the vodka in my martini rise when the ice cubes melt?
It no longer snows in Greenland?
Of course it’ll raise sea levels...just ask our political and business elitists who are gobbling up coastal estates. /s
Any time now.
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.”
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Another hyperbolic “warning” for the geologically and historically ignorant.
Sea levels today are *hundreds* of feet higher than just 10,000 years ago. Google “Doggerland”. What is today’s North Sea was once dry land connecting Europe and England.
“We’re DOOMED, DOOMED ice tell you!!”
Awesome!
Blah Blah Blah. I’ve been hearing this crap for 30 years. Hasn’t happened.
What is ice made of ?? Water.
What is the ocean made of ...water.
Where did the ice come from...the ocean.
I rest my case.
I like this part. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regardless of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
This flies in the face of the recent data that the Arctic Ice cap is greater this Summer than ever and ships are ice bound in the Arctic right now and an expected colder than normal Winter is expected. The July in the Bearing Straits was colder than normal. More crap from the liberal and DNC mouthpiece AP.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Lolz!
Never noticed that problem with the ice causing fluctuations in my bourbon. Now I am going to have to do some studies. Definitely gonna need some Government grants to look into this!!!
What are the BOGUS assumptions on which this fake study was based?
Zombies... it’s always the zombies.
Guns and ammunition. You think you have enough and then the zombie ice comes.
This was written by a Bot, it’s not possible to be so stupid and be literate at the same time(?)
The 21st century is about 20% over. Have we seen a 6" rise yet, or is it all going to happen in the murky future?
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