Posted on 07/23/2015 2:04:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.
The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be “substantially more persuasive than anything previously published.” I certainly find them to be....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“...not yet peer reviewed...”
For “climate science” that is pretty funny.
Exactly.
These people live in their own world, facts cannot penetrate
Forgive me, weren’t they predicting about ten years ago that the Arctic ice would be all gone by about now and parts of New York City would be underwater as well? Somebody ought to tell these people about the expedition to study climate change in the Arctic that got postponed this week because of the thick Arctic ice holding up the boat.
Here in Michigan we are experiancing one of our cooler summers, I am told this is evidence of great globull warming, even accelerated same. I’m a denier.
They don't even try to hide anymore that their voodoo has nothing at all to do with science.
Yes. Hansen of NASA, Jones of EA CRU, and Michael Mann of Penn State......all respected scientists with absolutely no bias. Just don’t go back and read the spew of their emails that exposed them years ago. Political ideologists first, “scientists” never.
Alarmist and also right? When have the alarmists been right?
Consensus is a matter of context and the environment which surrounds it. At one time, the earth was believed to be flat. There was consensus.
Meanwhile in the Arctic: Arctic expedition to study global warming put on hold because of too much ice
Don’t forget Erlich.
Him, too. These people exist on contracts, grants and funding. The best way to get it is to give somebody with money what they want.
It doesn’t have to be real things like “fixing global warming”; it just has to be a good enough of a scare to imposes rules and taxes that fit the benefactor’s real goals - money and power.
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.” ― Alexander Hamilton
“a breathtaking new study”
Well! That’s as far as I had to read to know the article was pure trash.
What was “breathtaking” was the fact that people will actually believe this crap.
“These people exist on contracts, grants and funding.”
They don’t just ‘exist’. They travel the world and enjoy their lives on the taxpayer’s dime, while acting more like celebrities than scientists. It’s unfortunately not uncommon.
Spouting off before getting peer review feedback?
If consensus is settled science that is beyond criticism or debate then how could he have determined that settled science was wrong?
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