Posted on 06/16/2023 9:12:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Antarctica is discharging icebergs because of the increased snowfall and weighty ice accumulation is pushing the glacier to the sea where it breaks up into icebergs. It is a phenomenon of Antarctic cooling. The article is crap.
The difference between “Calamari” and “squid” is the price.
For some reason I never thought of Octopus as a cold-water critter.
The damage will be caused by the sudden collapse although it would be short lived. You would get tsunami waves radiating out from the place where the ice sheet collapsed. It would float back up again but for a minute or two it would make quite a mess.
That’ll have to do. :)
Ice is less dense water. When it melts, it becomes MORE DENSE and takes up LESS SPACE.
Ice is less dense water. The West Antarctic ice sheet is already in the water. When it melts, the frozen water becomes MORE DENSE and takes up LESS SPACE. MELTING SEA ICE WILL NOT CAUSE THE WATER LEVEL TO RISE.
At the moment, scientists don’t really know whether West Antarctica is at risk of fully collapsing due to the climate crisis.
These folks are smoking crack. If it happened 70,000 - 125,000 years ago, it wasn’t a “climate crisis” then, and it’s not one now. It’s what it is, climate change - 100% natural, normal, climate change.
Of course, the past collapse was due to a natural cycle in Earth’s climate. It was not caused by rapid global warming, triggered by human fossil fuel emissions during what should be a planetary cold spell, as it is today.
No it’s not today. It’s the same exact thing. Was anyone around to see if it was “rapid global warming” then? Or if it was slow global warming?
If Turquet’s octopuses in the southern ocean are ever reunited with their long-lost family members, it will mean our planet has entered truly troubled waters.
Were they troubled waters the first time they hooked up? NO.
Did anybody Common sense check these claims?
1 iceberg event Even if it covered all of western Antarctica Is not going to provide the surface area To cover all the oceans In nearly 2’ of additional water. Set an alarmist claim Is just plain stupid.
How long do we let these idiots get away with this crap?
“The Scientific Community” is losing much of its credibility.
Super funny!!
Glaciers – large sheets of ice and snow – exist on land all year long. They are found in the mountains of every continent except Australia. Greenland and Antarctica contain giant ice sheets that are also considered glaciers. As temperatures rise, glaciers melt faster than they accumulate new snow. As these ice sheets and glaciers melt, the water eventually runs into the ocean, causing sea level to rise.
Icebergs and frozen seawater also melt in warm temperatures but are not significant contributors to sea level rise. This is because they are already in the water. The volume of water they displace as ice is about the same as the volume of water they add to the ocean when they melt. As a result, sea level does not rise when sea ice melts.
While density differences between salt water and freshwater result in a difference between the volume of salty sea water being displaced by sea ice and the freshwater that would result from the melting of that sea ice, it is minimal.But for the record (and I hope for a warmer climate were I am)
NOAA’s 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report suggests that sea levels could rise as much as seven feet by 2050 unless more is done to curb future emissions
These groups are pretty free with their use of words such as "could", "might", "maybe".
That's quite an astounding claim considering the planet is 69% ocean and only 21% land mass and 20% of that land mass is desert.
They never say where exactly all that water is going to come from.
If they think it's going to come from the melting of the Antarctic, consider that the Antarctic only covers 2.75% of the planet's land mass and that the annual average temperature is -47F degrees. That means that there has to be a sustained increase of 79F degrees just to start the melting process.
As far as the Arctic being a source of water for the rise in the oceans, it's already a floating giant ice cube so any melt will have no effect on ocean water levels........
I realize that I'm not an educated climate scientist but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night......
NOAA's short term climate prediction record is quite abysmal,
I enjoy Marinara Sauce over octopus................
Not sure if they are Continentals or Michelins. Most likely Pirellis............
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