Geez, build a sea-wall. Bring in some Dutch, fer Chrissakes. They know how.
(Warm-mongers: "No! No! Let's try to control the climate of the whole friggin planet!")
Posted on 12/18/2009 9:19:42 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Earth's Polar Ice Sheets Vulnerable to Even Moderate Global Warming; New Orleans, Much of Southern Florida, Expected to Be Permanently Submerged
ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2009) — A new analysis of the geological record of the Earth's sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planet's polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate global warming scenarios. Such melting would lead to a large and relatively rapid rise in global sea level.
According to the analysis, an additional 2 degrees of global warming could commit the planet to 6 to 9 meters (20 to 30 feet) of long-term sea level rise. This rise would inundate low-lying coastal areas where hundreds of millions of people now reside. It would permanently submerge New Orleans and other parts of southern Louisiana, much of southern Florida and other parts of the U.S. East Coast, much of Bangladesh, and most of the Netherlands, unless unprecedented and expensive coastal protection were undertaken. And while the researchers' findings indicate that such a rise would likely take centuries to complete, if emissions of greenhouse gases are not abated, the planet could be committed during this century to a level of warming sufficient to trigger this outcome.
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Whoa! Boston will be under water! John Kerry is selling short!
What if it was found to be 2 deg warmer in the years around 1200 AD, and the seas did not rise to drown everyone?
That’s not such a bad deal. New Orleans dead-beats go and the yankee part of Florida.
Not a bad deal.
The price of swampland is gonna take a lickin’.
Please forward that data to me and let me run it through my computer model. My guess I can make that data show whatever you would like it to show. That is why a NEW ANALYSIS of the same information shows something different, because you did something different with the information. Enough said.
I am a human. I can create a computer model (or reanalysis of information) and get it to show whatever is desired. Particularly if you pay me enough to do so.
“how much of ‘global warming’ is due to natural causes, and how much is due to nature itself (i.e. the sun.)”
LOL, when I was younger I used to work in a deli. For entertainment, we would ask customers if the order was “to go” or for “take out.”
I did see your correction, just had to comment.
Is this really breaking news?
Quick, transfer 3 trillion to FEMA for rubber Dinghies!
Indeed. It’s one of the most annoying aspects of the global warming theorists - they have chosen a tiny pinpoint in Earth’s history and have decided to make all claims about cooling and warming relative to that time frame. Ludicrous.
Actually, it’s much worse than that, but the wise old Owl Gore is not letting on. He knows that the weight of the ice on Antarctica acts like a giant anchor on the earth. If the ice melts we lose the anchor and the earth spins off into outer space.
I am thinking of the submerged city in the Carribean that was posted on this site this week. I guess the ancient Greeks, Babylonians, Atlantisians, and Lemurians burned too much carbon too? It done melted the poles, and the world has never recovered....Damn then DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL.
Technically, New Orleans is already under water, it’s just being kept dry by the levies. It’s become a temple to the folly of man vs nature.
I have been waiting for ocean front property since I heard the coastline will fall into the ocean during a earthquake.
Dare to dream!
Going out to buy my moonwalk suit.
Antarctica is the problem ... it's ice over a landmass, not ice floating on water (like the Arctic ice mass). It has 70% of all the world's freshwater frozen as ice - and 90% of all the world's ice. So, IF the Antarctic ice were to melt, sea levels would rise. Currently, the Antarctic ice mass is increasing in size. and
For the sea levels to rise 6 inches worldwide, it would require an amount of ice to melt equal to 216 Greenlands.
End of story. . Have half a notion to call these guys at Princeton and Harvard and have them debate these three points. Doesn't agree with their research funding grant and their computer models would be my guess.
The northern cap literally floats in the Arctic ocean, IIRC - there is some ice of course on land in Greenland and Antarctica - which is actually increasing I heard.
Geez, build a sea-wall. Bring in some Dutch, fer Chrissakes. They know how.
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Huh? The Bible's history is confined to a select region and a recent period of time and doesn't say anything about Antarctica.
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