Operative word: “Could”.
The seas will rise to engulf Mt Everest I tell you is what the leftists scream. The sea levels have risen since the end of the last ice age when the big glaciers melted. The sea levels rose abut 400 ft, but in the last two hundred years the rise is not really measurable.
‘Sleeping giant’ glacier may lift seas two metres: study
Or not
Did Al Gore come up with this?
Woo hoo! Surf’s up! Finally we get something besides 3 foot mush!
this is great. i won’t have to drive that far to get to a nj beach
Maybe some that extra water will eventually help replenish that depleted ground water in western states.
Hahahah. The Dutch have lived with dikes higher than that
for years.
Written by a Marlowe Hood. Could we say that we have been “Hood-Winked” by this writer and his sources. Come back in a 100 years and find out.
Or, at my age, I don’t give a damn, unless it holds back rampaging inland rivers and creeks.
When this BS came around the first time, I showed my g-kids that this couldn’t happen by putting an ice cube on the table.
Being as there is no dam to cause the melt water to pile up it’s not possible for the depth to rise to the predicted levels considering the sq miles of ocean and the relatively small size of the glacier.
Whew...I wonder if they'll figure out that the water level is rising over the next 85 years. Cause if they don't they'll just keep building in the water.
Women and children hardest hit.
And monkeys “may” fly out of my butt.
So, then: I wonder if the author of the text below knows more than those supplying the hype in this article...
Climatic Change
DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0037-5
Exploring high-end scenarios for local sea level rise to develop flood protection strategies for a low-lying delta—the Netherlands as an example
by Caroline A. Katsman et al, 2011
This paper includes the following statements about SLR contributions from the EAIS this century:
“2. the three marine-based glacier basins in East Antarctica that are showing recent thinning (Pritchard et al. 2009): Totten Glacier, the glacier which feeds Cook Ice Shelf around 150 E, and Denman Glacier (EAIS-g) and
3. the northern Antarctic Peninsula (n-AP), an area that has suffered recent
increases in atmospheric temperature, increased glacier
The severe scenario is based on an emerging collapse of the ASE and EAIS-g as a result of marine ice sheet Climatic Change
EAIS-g SLR contribution by 2100: 0.19m (for discharge as analogous to ASE)
During a collapse, the retreat of the ice and the contribution to sea level rise is not limited by the acceleration of the glaciers taking ice to the oceans, as suggested by the investigations of the upper bound of the AIS contribution to sea level rise by Pfeffer et al. (2008). For a marine ice sheet it is possible for the edge of the ice sheet to migrate inland, into increasingly deep ice, and this could cause a collapse of West Antarctic Ice Sheet at rates that are higher than could be achieved by glacier acceleration alone. It is generally thought that a full-scale collapse would be promoted by the removal of ice shelves that fringe the grounded ice sheet and act to buttress it. On the Antarctic Peninsula, loss of Larsen B Ice Shelf resulted in a speed-up of the glaciers that formerly fed it by factors of two to eight times (Scambos et al. 2004). If we imagine glacier acceleration at the upper end of this range we can come close to the rates of loss that could be described as a collapse. If the loss of ice from the glaciers across ASE increases to eight times the balance value, akin to what was observed after the loss of Larsen B ice shelf, it would result in an additional contribution of 3 mm/yr to sea level rise. If this type of behavior followed an ice-shelf loss, it could, in theory dominate for much of the latter part of the century, giving a total contribution to sea level rise by 2100 on the order of 0.25 m (Table 2). If the marine glacier basins in EAIS-g were to follow the progress of the ASE glaciers, effectively producing a 50% excess in discharge over 30 years (from 2000), and then following exponential growth to 2100, this would imply around 0.19 m global mean sea level contribution in the period 2000–2100. In this severe scenario, the contribution from the n-AP glaciers is unlikely to be a significant fraction of the total. We note that the ice thickness on the n-AP (Pritchard and Vaughan 2007) is poorly surveyed, but is unlikely to contain more than 0.10 m global mean sea level equivalent. The potential contribution from this area is therefore unlikely to be substantially greater than 0.05 m. For the purposes of this scenario, we assume that this 0.05 m is lost by 2100. The total sea level contribution for the severe scenario due to changing ice dynamics is then 0.49 m. To this estimate, we add again the
global mean sea level change of -0.08 m projected in response to an increase in accumulation (IPCC AR4), and arrive at an upper estimate of 0.41 m.
http://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php?topic=263.0
Those invisible glaciers are the worst! Very sneaky!
1970
Harvard biologist Dr. George Wald
“Civilization Will End Within 15 or 30 Years.”
April 1970
Stanford professor Dr. Paul Ehrlich
“100-200 Million People Per Year Will Be Starving to Death During the Next Ten Years.”
1970
Stanford professor Dr. Paul Ehrlich
“Population Will Inevitably and Completely Outstrip Whatever Small Increases in Food Supplies We Make.”
1970
Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University
”By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
January 1970
Life magazine
“In A Decade, Urban Dwellers Will Have to Wear Gas Masks to Survive Air Pollution.”
David Brower, the first executive director of The Sierra Club
“Childbearing [Will Be] A Punishable Crime Against Society, Unless the Parents Hold a Government License.”
On Earth Day in 1970
ecologist Kenneth Watt
“By the Year 2000 … There Won’t Be Any More Crude Oil.”