Posted on 09/12/2015 1:51:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Burning all the world’s deposits of coal, oil and natural gas would raise the temperature enough to melt the entire ice sheet covering Antarctica, driving the level of the sea up by more than 160 feet, scientists reported Friday.
In a major surprise to the scientists, they found that half the melting could occur in as little as a thousand years, causing the ocean to rise by something on the order of a foot per decade, roughly 10 times the rate at which it is rising now. Such a pace would almost certainly throw human society into chaos, forcing a rapid retreat from the world’s coastal cities.
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Ban Fossil Fuels! Burn Candles!
Whale oil is our future.
And yet if you set off 1,000 hydrogen bombs off on Antartica you would only raise the temperature of the ice 1 degree Fahrenheit!
Scientists: We must act now on gun control, or everyone could die
Scientists were surprised to find that a study found that If you shot everyone in the world including yourself all at once in just the right spot in the head then very quickly everyone on earth would die from a gunshot wound to the head and that would be a disaster.
In a major surprise to the scientists, they found that half the melting could occur in as little as a thousand years, causing the ocean to rise by something on the order of a foot per decade, roughly 10 times the rate at which it is rising now.IOW, the 1.2 inches per decade that the sealevels are NOT currently rising would be TEN TIMES WORSE if ALL the methane gas, petroleum, and coal (something in excess of 10,000 years' worth of consumption) were burned at once. And, they're lying. Partisan media shills ping. Thanks Ernest.
LOL!
Thanks for the factoids!
Oh nooooahh...we’re ALL going to die!
If only we pay the UN in National treasure and independence and freedom, all will be well.
Fork over your money and rights to UN fascists/marxists and all will turn out well - they will turn down the temperature of the globe! It easy peasy.
The hyperbole is amazing...
All the ice would melt if the sun exploded
and burned all the fossil fuels at once,
but that’s not going to happen any time soon.
If it does, it will serve us right for not getting off
this planet when we have the chance.
Ten times zero is still zero...
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We can move all the refugees from the Middle East there, great! Lets do it!
The hyperbole is amazing...
Obama, the Pope, et. al., are going to impose global rule on us in the name of giving the globe a solution for, what is basically a global warming lie. It does not matter what we think about it.
And if a black hole develops in the center of the earth, the whole thing could collapse in a blink and we’d all be history and the oceans would be gone and there would be no climate and...........
What kind of ice is it on Antarctica that starts to melt at temperatures colder than 32F?
So, just how long would that take assuming it was even possible? This reminds me of those studies that claim something can cause cancer. Then you find out it takes 3 times your body weight consumed in 1 week to cause it.
Good propaganda has to have some amount of plausible believable content it seems to me!
Fire all of your fuel at once and explode into space, like a true nature’s child we were born, born to be wild...
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