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Antarctica is melting faster, and we're not ready for the sea level rise that's coming (tr)
Business Insider ^ | June 16, 2018 | Kevin Loria

Posted on 06/17/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

SURF’S UP!

Enjoy.


81 posted on 06/17/2018 12:09:00 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: Yaelle

I used to have some fake $20..00 Al Gore Carbon-Credit dollars. I would be discussing global warming with liberals and I would offer to explain the science and meaning of global warming to them.

If they agreed, I would ask them for $20.00. After they gave it to me as part of this demonstration, I would give them an Al Gore Carbon Credit.

I would then say, do you now understand global warming? They would generally say, NO. I would then explain:
You have a Carbon Credit, you feel better about yourself.
Al Gore has your $20.00, he feels better about himself.
I am out nothing and I know I feel good.


82 posted on 06/17/2018 12:13:11 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: OldMissileer

That’s about the only target in the range we’d be a little upset about. More than one romantic rendezvous has been had there!


83 posted on 06/17/2018 12:15:59 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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...
West Antarctica's ice sheet is mostly submerged, meaning, as it melts, sealevel actually declines (ice floats). But I'm sure the insurance claims for the sudden 8 millimeter rise must be devastating, or rather, would be were the claims actually true. Thanks EdnaMode.

84 posted on 06/17/2018 12:22:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: EdnaMode

Political science, that is science driven by politics.


85 posted on 06/17/2018 12:26:25 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: EdnaMode

Is this net or absolute ice lost, all the studies I have seen say it is growing not shrinking.

If the ice melt in increasing but new ice creation is increasing even faster, does it matter?


86 posted on 06/17/2018 12:28:44 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
What to do?

Invest in property at or above the 200 foot above sea level. It will be water front property at some time in the future./s

87 posted on 06/17/2018 12:35:29 PM PDT by Know et al ( Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: EdnaMode
🌊⛵️🚤⛵️🏖🏝🍿🍻😹🏄🏊🏼
88 posted on 06/17/2018 12:40:18 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Steely Tom

I ask the same question of liberals in the Florida Keys. The answer they’re programmed to reply with is always “there is still time to change things.”. You can’t win with these deadbeats.


89 posted on 06/17/2018 12:46:41 PM PDT by edh
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To: ClearCase_guy
If ice IS melting, it has been melting for a long time now, and if it has BEEN melting, we should actually see the rise in sea level.

WHY is NYC still here ?

90 posted on 06/17/2018 12:47:01 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: Da Coyote

Not only that, but while it all the ice in Antarctica were to melt it would cause sea-levels to rise the 200 feet - even if the worst of the warming predictions were true, it would’t Melt the vast majority of either Antarctic or Greenland ice.


91 posted on 06/17/2018 12:48:38 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: EdnaMode

Utter bullsh*t from start to finish.


92 posted on 06/17/2018 1:32:10 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: ClearCase_guy

Odd. East Antarctica ice cap (More than 80% of the ice cap down there)has been gaining ice mass. As had the Antarctic sea ice, steadily growing between 1992 and 2015.


93 posted on 06/17/2018 1:41:36 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: EdnaMode

“Oh no!!!!! We must do something!! But what exactly??!!!”

Drink faster!!!

Or let’s dig the bottom of the oceans deeper!!!


94 posted on 06/17/2018 2:32:09 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: EdnaMode

sorry ideologically motivated leftist academics have been proven as severely faulty as any authority on this subject.


95 posted on 06/17/2018 2:33:02 PM PDT by elbook
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To: EdnaMode

Barricade the doors! Nail boards at irregular angles across the windows! Panic and run around in circles screaming “We’re DOOMED!!!””


96 posted on 06/17/2018 4:14:07 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: dsrtsage

Quick call Bicycle Repair Man!


97 posted on 06/17/2018 4:17:08 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: EdnaMode

Somebody better tell Al Gore to start rolling up the carpets and moving furniture to higher ground at his seaside mansion in California.


98 posted on 06/17/2018 4:19:48 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: EdnaMode

WE live in a sailboat in the ICW of coastal Georgia. Higher water means more places we can go.


99 posted on 06/17/2018 4:59:50 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: EdnaMode

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, where will we go when the sky and ocean merge and we have no land. OMG, OMG, OMG!!!


100 posted on 06/17/2018 5:25:51 PM PDT by Wuli
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