Posted on 02/10/2019 3:07:18 PM PST by Textide
The destruction of the Antarctic ice sheet may not lead to such a catastrophic rise in the level of the oceans, as previously thought. In a new study, the authors calculated that instead of growing by a meter or more by 2100, a growth of 14-15 cm is likely, writes N + 1.
At the same time, the melting of the ice of Greenland and Antarctica is not fully taken into account in modern climate models, as it will lead to even more destabilization of the regional climate. Both studies on this are published in the journal Nature.
The melting of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica is considered one of the most dangerous global consequences of climate change caused by human activity, which will lead to an increase in the level of the World Ocean. There are very significant reserves of ice, and the rate of its melting has increased in recent years. However, the range of estimates of the speed of this process in the future and the final rise in the level of the oceans is quite large. So, in 2016, in one of the works, it was assumed that by 2100 due to the sharp destruction of the Antarctic ice sheet, the level of the World Ocean could rise by a meter or more.
In the first study, Tamzin Edwards from King’s College London and her colleagues question this prediction. According to Edwards, who is quoted by the college press service, scientists re-analyzed data on ice loss and ocean level 3 million years ago, 125 thousand years ago and in the last 25 years and estimated the likelihood of rapid destruction of unstable sea areas of Antarctic glaciers, which the authors 2016 was associated with a meter increase in the level of the oceans. The hypothesis of such destruction received the abbreviated name MICI (marine ice cliff instability).
They found that MICI does not necessarily explain the dynamics of sea level in the past, and without this the probability that the level will grow by more than 39 centimeters by 2100 is only about 5 percent. Edwards notes that in their model, even if the Antarctic glaciers really will collapse rapidly, the maximum increase in sea level will not exceed half a meter, and the most likely growth will be 14-15 cm. At the same time, scientists cannot completely eliminate the MICI phenomenon: they only talk about that more research is needed in this area.
In the second article, Edwards and Nick Golledge of Queen Victoria University in Wellington and their co-authors write that current climate models do not fully take into account the consequences of the destruction of the ice of Greenland and the Antarctic, which will slow down the Atlantic Ocean and further melt the Antarctic ice due to “locking” of warm water in the Southern Ocean (climatologists call such self-enhancing processes positive feedback processes). In addition, according to the authors of the article, the melting of ice in the warming scenario of 3-4 degrees compared with the middle of the XIX century will lead to a less predictable climate and an increase in the scale of extreme weather events.
The obvious clue to this hoax is the letter “s” following the word “model”. If there are many models out there which one is correct? Why haven’t all of the wrong models been thrown in the garbage? How not right is the right model and why can’t they fix it? In science you don’t get to vote on what’s the real outcome you have to design experiments which prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there are no other possible outcomes. That letter “s” is a pesky little devil.
Democrat environmentalists are evil.
If these idiots were truly interested in saving our lives from this predicted sea-level increase they would be proposing legislation BANNING new developments along the coast or taxation along the coast which would discourage living there. Where is this legislation? Conservatives should propose such in democrat controlled states such as California and Massachusetts. Let’s see who is serious and who is lying.
With a little more manipulation and a lot more Grant Money, it may even be lower.
A 14 to 15 centimeter rise by 2100? That’s 5 or 6 inches. Of course New York City will have to be evacuated because of the rising sea level but most of the country will survive OK.
Some insist this is somehow different than the grade school science experiment involving a a full glass of water with ice sticking out of the top. Displacement is displacement.
Son of N?
Given the “success” of climate models over the past thirty years or so, climate “science” appears to be trounced in successes by astrology, which is also obviously settled science.
All these climate scientists working for NOAA, NASA, universities, etc. are all part of a massive welfare state for PHDs who cannot obtain gainful employment elsewhere. They do nothing but calculate fraud upon us and the world.
“we only need to worry about ice in the interior starts melting.”
The interior is gaining ice mass not losing (Zwalle 2016).
And therefore the seas are NOT rising nearly as fast as all papers previously to Zwalle’s, predicted.
Good initial point in that it is the coastal cities that are in danger, New York, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, all the libtard places that need to be flushed out. If global warming would guarantee the above, then I vote for rapid and decisive global warming.
The destruction of the Antarctic ice sheet may be the result of underwater volcanoes causing warm water.
LOL! Global warming is causing more volcanoes to erupt as the internal core of the earth heats up.
Think what a service the rising ocean levels will do. Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, L.A. Oakland and San Diego sidewalks will be flushed clean of all that homeless poop and pee. The Earth is renewing itself.
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