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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I love this crap especially when they say:
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.
Funny how most of those areas used to be under water and I am probably sure they will be under water again sometime and probably will surface some time after that...LOL.
The arrogant peons in the scientific community that think they can even begin to understand and predict our existence. It is mind boggling the arrogance demonstrated by these grant suckers.
Nothing is permanant when it comes to our planet - PERIOD.
I am just so worried, that only leaves Hope and Change for these people, oh my, oh my, what ever shall we do?
Not if it rests on land that is above sea level.
What state? OKlahoma 38, for me, hard times there for sure, but I long to return.
Is the converse also true? 2 degrees of cooling going to lower the oceans and add beachfront property? Because it is getting cooler, not warmer.
Since we can ANALyze any conceivable scenario, why not compute what would happen with a 15 degree rise? 20 degrees?, whatever. Doesn't matter. Because it ain't gonna happen.
If an uncle I don't have died tomorrow and left me 10 million dollars, which he doesn't have because he doesn't exist, what would happen? I could make that assumption, punch in mounds of variables and gee whiz, I discover I am going to die 10 years early because of alcohol abuse and sex with all of Tiger Wood's hunnies. Which wouldn't happen if my imaginary uncle didn't die. So I have to levy a tax on you to pay for preemptive medical care for my "uncle". And when he doesn't die that will be proof that the levy worked and must go on forever.
That sound about right?
I’m looking forward to having beachfront property when all of this happens! Melt baby melt!
Like they did in Venice?
It’s a fact that vast areas of what is now dry land used to be under water. My father was born about 200 miles from the coast in Texas (500 feet above sea level now). When I was a boy we used to go there and dig up teeth from prehistoric salt water fish.
Envirofascists are deluded or lying about man’s ability to affect the world.
And besides that, let me offer a question even a grade-schooler could come up with: (first the premise) at what temperature does ocean water begin to evaporate? Is evaporation a process that is continuous, except in “cold” conditions? Is evaporation (by definition, the LOWERING of the level of seas and oceans) ever figured into the “science” of predicting what sea levels are likely to do?(rise, fall, or maintain equilibrium)Isn’t a certain degree of evaporation always to be expected? Is it assumed that that big bugaboo, ‘the melting of the polar ice caps’ ,
going to be SO overwhelming that no amount of evaporation would be equal to the increased water put into the oceans
by the global warming that, essentially, starts the whole thing going by melting those polar ice caps?
I have lots more questions, teacher..........
New Orleans is possibly the WORST example as an argument for global warming. OF course, it’s because it’s below sea level. OF COURSE, the cataclysm there was due to the proverbial “perfect storm” of a hurricane, Katrina, and a system of primitive and unmaintained or low-tech levees coupled with shoreline erosion that ushered in a scenario in real time and real life that everyone knew would be inevitable someday. Forget even about the corrupt political culture. Fact is, New Orleans is the ONLY city in the USA this has happened to on the level it happened.”Flooding’ has occurred in countless American cities, usually the result of different kinds of ‘perfect storms’, most infrastructure like levees and dams that have burst, or been breached. Lots of locales along the Coast were damaged bigtime, but none were submerged like New Orleans. I was there for nearly two weeks working on a house, about 6-7 months after Katrina.
An experience I will never forget.
I think I’ll buy a boat. More water to explore in the near future!
Invest is boats!
West of New Orleans is a swampland, especially on I-10. New Orleans is an island. Some say it is like Haiti and call it a Banana Republic.
if global warming turns out to be true, I’ve decided to like it.
The first law of computers is “garbage in, garbage out”.
I hear the folks in Deland are worried.....lol
Well, thank GOD! Now we’ll FINALLY be rid of the Ninth Ward!!! ;)
Well just fill a glass with ice cubes and wait for them to melt. What happens? Does it overflow the glass onto the table? Enough said.
I agree, stop the New Orleans funding NOW! And for heaven’s sake, somebody pull those trailers and buses out while they’re still salvageable!
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