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Major Antarctic glacier is 'past its tipping point' (It's a catastrophe!!!!)
newscientist.com ^
| Jan. 13, 2010
| Shanta Barley
Posted on 01/13/2010 5:39:13 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"
according to a new modelling study"
My model says something far different ~ give me the money first.
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:14:05 PM PST
by
muawiyah
("Git Out The Way")
To: Bean Counter
““As your attorney, I advise you to drink heavily...”
LOL - party on, Garth!
To: PistolPaknMama
Nobody alive now will be alive then, with the one exception of possibly Al Gore. Yes, trees often live a couple of hundred years.
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:19:32 PM PST
by
TN4Liberty
(My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
To: diverteach
I was thinking of a shorter drive to the beach!
To: Free ThinkerNY; steelyourfaith; SunkenCiv
Climate model: sophisticated name for an upscale video game.
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:26:22 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: VeniVidiVici
“Notice all the bad stuff happens 100 years from now. And the stuff that was supposed to happen earlier has been pushed back due to this inconvinient global cooling.”
Yeah, that’s the ticket - no one will be alive to remind them of their mistakes. Given the quiet sun, one more winter like this one and these clowns will be ducking snowballs at press conferences (which I think would be much funnier than shoes).
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:28:21 PM PST
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
25 cm = 9.8 inches - build the Ark now!
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:30:09 PM PST
by
PIF
To: ApplegateRanch; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
...it is poised to collapse in a catastrophe that could raise global sea levels by 24 centimetres.
I read about this on the front page as I finished my paper route on Mars yesterday. :')
Thanks ApplegateRanch!
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:30:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:32:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: Bhoy
It’s all over now, these models are in 3D! It’s gotta be true — it’s in 3D! Not quite! It is only REGULAR 3-D; not Blue Ray 3-D.
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:32:29 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Durn, I should have kept my land in Yuma,Az. It will become beachfront property!
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:33:03 PM PST
by
TMSuchman
(Semper Fi & Carpe Diem... carry out the plan of the day!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
It’s “Pants on the Ground” for this glacier!
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:33:39 PM PST
by
rabidralph
("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets; Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
Hmm... 361800000*.0024=868320 cubic km? That’s a lot of cubic km of water. I think that’s what would be required to raise sealevels 24 cm.
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:37:28 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:39:44 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: Free ThinkerNY; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; enough_idiocy; ...
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:44:46 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanx !
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posted on
01/13/2010 6:50:05 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Freedom from fat cat greedy Big Government tyranny IS a Right ... It IS the Constitution.)
To: SunkenCiv
I think you’re an order of magnitude high. 24 cm = 0.00024 km, not .0024
The volume of a thin shell goes as:
A x dR
A, the area of the earth’s oceans is roughly 3.6 x 10^8 km^2.
dR, the thickness of the shell is 24 cm = 0.24 m = 0.00024 km = 2.4 x 10^(-4) km
So the required volume is 3.6 x 10^8 x 2.4 x 10^(-4)km^3 =
8.64 x 10^4 km^3 = 86,400 km^3.
To: Free ThinkerNY; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
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posted on
01/13/2010 7:13:17 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Don't eat your dog; eat obnoxious, liberal humans to save the planet!)
To: SunkenCiv
I recently read that tiny Ceres, at one time the ninth planet, holds more water than all the earth’s oceans.
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