cheers
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."
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Very small rocks float, too.
Believing in Climate Change or Climatephrenia should be a DSM-IV category mental illness.
At least you're understanding and I appreciate it. Thanks.......
What about beer?
Last time they did that study, they forgot to include the beer.
A most excellent contribution. Make beer in the amount of sea level rise! Forward!
[[Turns out that it had a function key that does meltwater calculations.]]
Hmmm, would that be the F-U key? (meaning to hell with the world- We’ll screw em all over key )
Zactly.
cheers
Must motorboat...
What’s the difference between Global Warming and Islam? Not much. Except that the AGW pukes don’t allow dhimmis or suicide bombers. Suicide bombers would just adversely affect the climate, probably causing the earth to roll over.
So the sea levels rise. What is the worst that can happen. We are not talking tsunamis here, it is 7 inches in a century (Although I HAVE had problems with 7 inches overnight, but, ahem, I digress). People move to higher ground, and a bunch of slum-ridden coastal cities share the same fate as Atlantis. It might even have a cleansing affect. So Harrisburg becomes a major port, so what?
FACE PALM.
Where do they find these IDIOTS and why do they get published.
I have a theory that the amount of stupid in the new age scientific community is over weighting the planet. Causing it to wobble on it’s axes, causing it to slow down, and thus causing the sea level to rise, due to the clumping up of the water in global warming warm spots (the air is warmer and lighter, therefore less pressure on the water surface).
Can I get published in Scientific American, National Geographic, and The Journal of Science?
If not, why not?
No! No! No! Wait! That simply will not do unless we can be assured the resultant wobble of the weebles following consumption of the beer occurs in random fashion much like the lack of cadence in the steps of troops traversing a bridge. We should ponder further and I suggest we have a beer while we do so.
I think if the rings of Saturn changed colors, some a$$ hole liberal would blame global warming. What a$$ holes.
Get Bent; the best I could do here today was 28 degrees, and I am in California (northern), still have roof work that needs doing but can’t unroll the roofing paper, it just cracks and snaps off.
LOL
Well it was overcast here all day so there’s that.
That’s OK; never did care for Fig Newtons any way, the apricot sounds interesting though.
Yeah; I have no doubt in my mind, THAT would throw off the earth’s center of gravity and cause it to wobble.
I know it would throw off my center of gravity.
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