10 foot rise in the seas?
Is there anybody who can calculate how big a volume of ice/snow/glacier would have to melt to raise the oceans 10 feet? They reduce in volume by a large percent.
The oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface.
Who can calculate it?
and yet, the east ice is increasing:
Widespread Persistent Thickening of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet by Freezing from the Base
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6024/1592
and then there’s the wind:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/18/claim-winds-blamed-for-antarctic-sea-ice-approaching-record-high/
and, going back 12 years, it could be just a case of the “ice stream” which fluctuates:
The scientists said Antarctica is the only continent that is cooling. They can not say why.
In their paper, Joughin and Tulaczyk suggest the West Antarctic ice streams may be undergoing the same transition from shrinking to growing that appears to have occurred on a neighboring stream 150 years ago.
The results, they add, suggest a reduced possibility of the feared massive collapse of the ice field.
“Perhaps, after 10,000 years of retreat from the ice-age maximum, researchers turned on their instruments just in time to catch the stabilization or re-advance of the ice sheet,” Richard B. Alley of Pennsylvania State University, wrote in a commentary accompanying the Science paper.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/science/cold-science/2002-01-18-wais-thicker.htm
It’s only been a mention in the news for, oh maybe, four years, now?
See, the problem is, all the coastal cities are heavily implanted with Democrat voters.
If those cities are ruined...!!!
Seems to me the press should be a little more concerned about threats closer to home.... like... the Yellowstone supervolcano, and the fact that the government is withholding valuable information that could save thousands of lives.
If there is any truth to the rumors that our government has reached “refugee” arrangements with OTHER COUNTRIES to house Americans in case of an eruption, I would submit that the press is again FAILING to do their job.
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
The good news is that with enough melting and sea rise, the ABC studios will be submerged.
That could upset all 5 of their viewers...
GOP blocks energy bill, scuttling vote on Keystone XL pipeline
Scientists: Camel Flatulence Isn’t Contributing to Climate Change
IPCC Report Scientists: Rising Seas in East Antarctica Maybe -- in 2,000 to 10,000 Years
Global Warming on Free Republic
Because it was proclaimed by an electrical engineer?
For some reason, I get the feeling that a bunch of research grants are running out soon.
Some fear summer.