Posted on 12/12/2015 2:47:24 PM PST by PROCON
As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.
The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth's rotation, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
"If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes--in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland--you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down," said Jerry Mitrovica, the study's lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change. "The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it's being redistributed unequally."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Why, yes. You are correct. A further benefit was realized when I closely examined a topographical map following the reading of your comment. Flooding to the degree our nations southern border from sea to shining sea, the breadth of which would require the abilities of only those having Olympic qualification to cross, would be the result. A number easily addressed by the deployment of a low number of personnel resulting in a huge saving of national treasure. Hmm. I’ll uncap a bottle of Dos Equis in an effort to promote the ice melt through CO2 release and consider further. Would you care to contribute while we wait?
If you bring the beer, I will bring the bottle opener...
This is some of the stupidest climate change idiocy to date. Too bad many will believe it.
I would, however I am now in no condition to travel. I’ve had too much to think I drink.
Must be the earf wobbling when my fat kitty runs down the hall.
Yet they have to be dishonest about their supportive data and won't debate the subject in public.
Earth wobble is horse hockey
Finally a close game...yet another Army loss.
*sigh*
Tens of thousands of people in Europe died of starvation as a result of the crop failures of 1816. Going through church records on microfilm (thanks to FamilySearch.org) for a village where some of my ancestors lived, it appeared that about 10% of the inhabitants died of starvation in 1817. I think at least 3 of my direct ancestors were among the victims--one in that village and two in a nearby village.
In the US the cold weather caused a lot of crops to fail but does not seem to have caused any mass starvation--but it did spur a lot of emigration from areas in the Northeast that were hard hit.
The high-speed wobs:
No reports on the involvement of beer.
Synthetic underlayment. Once you use it, you'll NEVER go back.
Especially the 5-foot wide rolls.
Army can stand proud of that game (other than that failed trick play). Last year was a close game too. I root for Navy but didn’t serve. The last two years I’ve been pulling for Army. If they could hold on to the ball and have better play calling they could have won. Maybe next year, a lot of Navy’s team are seniors.
“The eruption of Tambora was about ten times as powerful as the more famous eruption of Krakatoa.”
That is my feeling too but at least one author who appeared on the Dennis Prager show did not think so as he was promoting his book.
It was an incredible event and shows despite what nature does, many times more than man can do, the earth is resilient and always returns to livability. This attempt at controlling CO2 in the name of “saving the planet” is pure unadulterated rubbish, meant for nothing more than control and revenue.
Years ago, a popular story used in tabloid newspapers was the “threat” that the entire population of China had been ordered to stand on chairs, and on the same exact moment, to all jump off, the force of their group effort pushing the Earth out of its orbit.
I mention this only to note that this is one of the few arguments never advanced as a cause of man made global warming. Chinese chair jumping.
Though if they did advance it as an argument, I’m sure they would insist that 97% of climate scientists would agree with its “peer reviewed” conclusions.
Red Communism in "green" form.
*spit*
On this table, the 2010 volcano in Iceland rates only a 4. Vesuvius and Mt. St. Helens were both 5's. There are 4 6's including Krakatoa in 1883 and Pinatubo in 1991. The only 7 on the list is Mt. Tambora in 1815. (The only one before 1600 on the list is Vesuvius so it may be incomplete for the period before 1600.)
Since they are just giving whole numbers, each one ten times that of one number lower, perhaps Tambora was not exactly 10 times greater, but just in that range.
Peruse the Wikipedia article on the largest volcanic eruptions and Mt. Tambora is not at the top. Then again, see another on Tambora and you get another perspective. Wikipedia should be taken with a grain of salt—perhaps a truck load.
Wobal Glarming?
The sagas say the Leif Ericksson named Greenland because the name his father had given to Iceland discouraged settlers from Norway. Only rudimentary agriculture was possible on Greenland, even in those days. The Greenland settlements died out after about a century.
It was Erik the Red who named Greenland that, for the reason given. The Greenland settlements lasted more than a century—seem to have disappeared in the 1400s.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.