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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I think that eruption went on for weeks.
An ancillary effect was that we abandoned Clark Air Base in the Philippines. As I recall, lease negotiations were happening at that time to extend our lease on that base, and on Subic Bay. I think it was decided that there was so much damage at Clark that there was no point in trying to do a lease and also repair and clean up the volcano damage.
Let'ds do some arithmetic. 1992-2012 is ~20 years. 2012-2017 is five years. Then (20*84+5*240) billion = 2880 billion tons of ice. Where is the other ~400 billion tons? A 15% exaggeration is par for the course for these liars.
Your doubting of the truths of the global warming faith is bordering on racism and homophobia!
If he send me 1k a week, I will freeze his water for him :^D
Link to sea level recorder at Alameda Naval Air Station
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/437.php
shows sea level at site to be same as in 1940
Until one of us missileers misses our target and hits it with an RV. :-)
Spend money. Yeah, that's the ticket.
This is a “Press Release” based article, published in a magazine ignorant of science and quoting a “climate scientist”, not a glaciologist. Anyone can claim to be a climate scientist, it is not a scientific discipline. These articles are designed to stir up the public and grease the skids on grant proposals. Part of a self licking ice cream to sustain a phony academic industry.
Ask a few questions. Why does this article neglect to make a distinction between ice sheets anchored on continental terrain and those sitting on bodies of water? Because then they would have to explain why ice sheets on water will not raise sea level by a single millimeter, they are floating. Then they have to explain how the dynamics of glacier flow from the uplands of Antarctica to the sea has changed over time. Any snow deposited on land above sea level, will eventually flow to the sea. They are claiming that expected changes are extraordinary and a new phenomena. Be skeptical.
I don't have my conversion chart handy. How many feet is that?
Thank you. I was wondering where the pic of the Reichsminister for propaganda was.
We live on a canal 2 clicks off of St. Pete Beach and we have a causeway bridge right next to our property. In the almost 30 years we have lived here, never has a boater remarked that the waterway under the bridge has changed one bit; and the boaters, especially the commercial fishing boats, would know.
If you ask them they give you a strange look and just laugh.
What ever. This is a water planet and we know how to make crap float.
"If", "were to", "could", and "potentially". Well, hell, if you're THAT sure about it, then, yes, by all means, someone should do something.
We just re-watched The Day After. Laughed the entire movie through.
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