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Posted on 06/17/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by EdnaMode
In the future, seas will rise far higher than they are today. The question is whether it happens quickly or slowly.
There's enough ice stacked on top of Antarctica to raise seas around the globe by almost 200 feet. While it takes time for major changes to occur with that much ice, Antarctica is melting faster than we thought, according to a study recently published in the journal Nature.
The melting rate has been speeding up significantly in recent years.
Between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica lost more than 3.3 trillion tons of ice, causing sea levels around the globe to rise an average of 8 millimeters. About 40% of that loss occurred between 2012 and 2017, according to the new study. From 1992 to 2012, the continent lost about 84 billion tons of ice a year, and over the next five years, that jumped to more than 240 billion tons per year.
If the acceleration of ice melt were to continue, it could potentially cascade, leading to runaway ice melt and rapid sea level rise.
The biggest changes have come in West Antarctica, where the glaciers holding back ice sheets rest on rapidly warming ocean waters, causing them to melt more quickly.
Climate science professor Chis Rapley of the University College London has previously described Antarctica as a "slumbering giant" of ice melt and sea level rise that seems to be awakening.
"This paper suggests it is stretching its limbs," he told the UK Science Media Center.
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House boats see Noah.
btt
Where’s the Goebbels’ pic?
I lived on Kwajalein island; 6 feet above sea level. If there were ANY sea level changes, that place would know it first. It doesn’t. Even Lone Palm Island, a 40x40 foot island with a lone palm tree is still doing just fine.
All that seawater being desalinated by the Israelis should offset this problem, no? I’m surprised the eco-nazis haven’t accused the Jewish State of lowering the ocean by now.
You folks simply do not understand.
There is the simulated sea level which we all perceive when we go to seashores.
But, there is a “real” sea level which is known to only progressives (you know, the ones that major in lesbian logic and journalism in college), but is classified at a “double super-secret” level.
That’s the one they’re talkin’ about.
yes volcanoes can be a big factor in climate, which the global warming folks never discuss.
As I recall, in 1991, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed far more pollutants into the atmosphere, than anything produced by man’s activities. And if I recall correctly, global temps actually cooled a bit at that time, as so much particulate matter from Mt. Pinatubo spread out into the atmosphere worldwide. The particulate matter created a haze of sorts, which led to reduced temperatures.
It remains to be seen if the Hawaii and Guatemala eruptions will have anywhere near that impact.
167n feet above SL and keeping my bot ready and my fingers cross. Also buying future farmland 275 miles north of Edmonton.
All my future skyscrapers in Florida will now have a three story support structure.
I believe that they figured that eruption in 10 minutes, put more into the air than the entire world does in 3 years. And it went on for how long?
Sailing to work will be the new thing
So in 25 years the ocean levels world wide raised 5/16”. At that rate it would take 960 years to raise one foot. Call me an optimist or a Pollyanna, but I personally see no need to worry about this.
Lol.. we must teach these mush-heads that ice takes more room than water.. :p
Ice melts, sea lvl lowers ;-)
“How are you gonna get to work today?”
“Backstroke!”
We are all going to die! In less than 150 years, every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!
It’s Trump’s fault. Womyn and children will be hardest hit.
Paging Herr Goebbels.
I remember Pinatubo well.. we received 100s of evacuated airmen from Clark AB onto Homestead AFB (Miami)..
So...the climate is restoring itself to its former warmer level, as it was in the Jurrassic for millions upon millions of years? I mean by comparison time wise, anything cooler is abnormal.
Yes, there have been situation in earth’s geologic history when you have a lot of volcanoes relatively close together both in time & in geography. I had a geology professor call them “Volcano (or Volcanic) Storms”. (Now in my dotage I can’t remember exactly what term he used “volcano or volcanic”). I think the “Permian–Triassic extinction event” might be the best example.
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