Every single bit of above sea level ice would have to melt off 34' in order to get a 1' rise in the ocean. Now we only have 92 years left until 2100, so to raise the oceans 6.6 feet, we have to be melting the entire ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland by 2.4' per year.
So when is that going to start? Or is all 225' going to melt in the last few years of the century.
Don't these people own a calculator and a brain?
So when is that going to start?
This is something I didn't understood about the dire predictions of 30 - 40 years ago by Commoner, Ehrlich, et al. I would read that by 1980 it would be too late to make the changes we needed to make - changes impossible to make in that time period.
It is the same today. For how long has Gore been giving us but ten years? For the past ten years? Twenty? And, as you indicated, we have the 100 year thing. For how long has that been said? When do we start to see what's predicted?
It's no wonder that ordinary people are turning away from this doom and gloom.
What do you suppose this means?
[”The real unknown right now is what we call the dynamic effect of ice not melting but just being pushed straight into the ocean,” Pfeffer added, referring to pieces of ice breaking off from huge masses of ice such as glaciers and ice sheets and floating in the sea.]
Do they anticipate a ‘tsunami’ effect; dropping an ice cube in a bowl; what?!?