Posted on 11/06/2017 2:42:17 PM PST by ETL
There was never wind before White American Males started driving big SUVs around.
it could raise global sea level by at least 3.5 meters.
It could - or maybe it could not. This is like all their other dire predictions.
Oops! Just realized I screwed up a bit on the formatting. Repeated several paragraphs.
So, we need to break wind?....................
Yes, but they’re saying that this huge glacier (Totten) acts to hold back the entire ice sheet from sliding into the ocean. If it goes, so does the whole humongous ice sheet, so they claim.
WOW ,they know exactly what it will be like in 2070 .LOL
I'm disappointed that the original title of a new book describing in-flight refueling of aircraft was dropped.
The original name was "Passing Gas". :)
Ever notice how the very first sentence in every global warming article is so stupid you reflexively have some sort of physical response?
Don't worry. I have a fancy computer model that predicts it will not happen. Trust me. /s
It’s all that hot wind blowing in from The Hill.
“Wind is the likely culprit”
Sounds to me like the Earth’s Wind is being altered by all these Windmills being put up.
Guess there’s only one thing to do: -— Tear down all the new Windmills and go back to the way things were without Windmills being used for power generation.
I don't necessarily take this as a pro global warming/'climate change' piece, although I'm sure the authors believe that that is the reason behind what is allegedly taking place there.
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Massive BS!
Ice is rapidly increasing in Antarctica.
The ocean is impassable due to the ice.
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Sea levels continue to fall, as they have since the early ‘80s.
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...that is, unless the implication is that so-called “manmade global warming” is affecting wind currents in the region.
“the 14-year record used in the study is still somewhat short to infer a definitive link between wind-driven upwelling and ice shelf melt”
But this piece has to do with one particular portion of Antarctica. Not the entire continent. A single glacier that is supposedly being undercut by *wind-driven* ocean upwelling.
“Surface winds near the East Antarctic coast are expected to intensify in the next century due to warming”, “If the entire land-based glacier destabilizes and slips into the sea, it could raise global sea level by at least 3.5 meters.”
Stop with all the “May” “Could” “Might” “expected”and all the other half Stepping. You are a geophysicist can you not state with some conviction that it “will” or “will not” occur within a time span that you FOOLS can measure and prove.
Don't forget winter is coming and colder temps "MAY, Could, Might" cause more ICE to form changing the direction of the winds or providing more COLD AIR forming more ICE.
Winter in the northern hemisphere, but summer in the southern hemisphere.
For a whole host of reasons, though, they are still full of crap. Glaciers don't just fall off continents. Melting the leading edge of one won't make the rest of it come faster, and melting the submerged portion of one would actually lower sea level as the ice takes up more volume than the melt water it produces. Then overhanging parts might fall off, but not the whole glacier, pretty much keeping things the way they are.
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