[NormsRevenge]

To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets
as dangerous drivers of sea level rise (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)

[Dalberg-Acton]

Thanks, made me laugh!

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Yeah ! Sudden doom , not !
And Al Gore called for no Arctic ice in 2015
How did that work out for you ?

[Fungi]

This is typical “sky is falling syndrome.” Nonsense. This crap is constantly thrown at us hoping it sticks, but there is never any follow up with regard to their doomsday prognostications. Nonsense.

[SgtHooper]

More “Rosland Capital” scare tactics.

[gigster]

I predict that Martin Siegert,who has his girly-panties in a bunch, and says the sea-levels are going to rise by the end of the Century, won’t be alive to see it happen.

[Osage Orange]

Can’t more and more boats built and launched..raise the sea level?

[Bernard Marx]

The so-called "scientist" behind this is a shill for the climate-change, anti-carbon industry. He's co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment. Check it out.

Looked at from the viewpoint of historical geology, the oceans have risen and fallen countless times over the eons due to entirely natural causes. No humans were around to cause "tipping points" or the results therefrom. It can and will happen again.

This whole scam, and it's a huge one, is based on fear tactics promoted by intellectually dishonest academics and politicians who are taking advantage of the ignorance of the public at large about the time scales involved and what's happened to the Earth over geologic time.

The politicians and their greedy cronies like Al Gore are doing it for personal gain. I really don't understand the motives of so-called "scientists" like this one who must (or should) know that CO2 is not the cause of the Earth's periodic warming trends. It has been carefully documented by real scientists that increases in atmospheric CO2 happen hundreds of years after warming begins.

[bert]

since the Arctic worries proved baseless, the worrying has switched to the far south

[HamiltonJay]

1 glacier is holding enough liquid water to raise global waters by 12+ feet? Forgive me if I find this claim insanely incredulous.

I mean its been a while since I’ve done this sort of math but if the surface area of of a sphere is 4 pi R^2 and the radius of the earth is about 4,000 miles and 70% of the earth is covered by water, that means the surface area of the earth covered by water is something like 138000000 square miles. So the glacier would need to hold the volume of 12 feet * the volume of 138,000,000 square miles to raise water levels that far... so, color me dubious of the claim.

[Chaguito]

“From the air, the contours of Totten Glacier — roughly the size of France — are invisible because the entire Antarctic continent is covered by a seamless, kilometres-thick blanket of snow and ice.”

I imagine this is just sloppy writing by the reporter, but if the glacier is invisible due to covering snow and ice, it seems to me that it is not melting. OTOH, if it is melting anyway, it has to be because of subsurface warming, not global warming.