Ancient Greenland was much warmer than previously thought

ScienceDaily ^ | June 4, 2018 | Northwestern University

[Pelham]

Settled science. snort.

[FrankR]

At last I know...and to think of all the hours I’ve sat around pondering, wondering, what ancient Greenland’s climate was...it’s worried me in to gray hair.

Now, I can rest easy. whew!

/s

[marktwain]

How thick would the Greenland ice cap have to be to melt and raise sea levels 30 feet? (the average thickness is 6,600–9,800 ft)

It doesn’t add up.

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Actually, it does. Using your numbers, the sea level rise would be about 38 feet (assuming an average 8,000 foot thickness for the Greenland ice cap.

[Captain Compassion]

Eemian is one of the many terms to describe the previous interglacial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eemian

[marktwain]

More like a ring Island.

[dsc]

“experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth’s orbit...Try fixing that!”

What, are you denying anthropogenic orbit change? It’s settled science!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for posting, and be sure to check out the links in post #15.

[SunkenCiv]

• Days on Earth Are Getting Longer, Thanks to the Moon
• Antarctic snowfall increasing, study finds
• The Greenhouse Gas Effect Is A Scientific Impossibility
• Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence
• A star disturbed the comets of the solar system 70,000 years ago

[Alas Babylon!]

First time I have heard the Eemian referred to as the “Last Interglacial”.

Either term can be used.

It's like saying Obama, or the president before Trump.

[Alas Babylon!]

~~~shudder~~~

[the_daug]

Greenland's ice sheet, which covers 80 percent of the Arctic country and holds enough ice to equal 20 feet of global sea level, might respond to human-made global warming.

"Northwest Greenland might feel really remote, but what happens to that ice sheet is going to matter to everyone in New York City, Miami and every coastal city around the world," said Yarrow Axford,

Mr.Axford is touched this ocean rise only exist where parameters remain static.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I like to point out that the last refuge for dinosaurs in the world was Alaska. Their age lasted from 252 million to just a mere 66 million years ago.

But this suggests that other Arctic locations might have also been warm enough to support such reptiles.

[Vigilanteman]

Actually, more than 400 years.

[super7man]

experienced warming in the Arctic due to changes in Earth's orbit

What causes the Earth's orbit to change? (And then change back?) Not thinking so.

[SunkenCiv]

I don't buy the idea in the first place, and yes, I'm aware that the idea is popular. One reason for the popularity is to show how slight and gradual natural changes can be easily outdone by careless selfish humans using too much Aquanet.

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] Eemian, I gotta straighten my face, This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chandlerwobble/index?tab=articles

[SunkenCiv]

There were also dinos in the Antarctic, and the climate there was temperate no longer ago than three million years.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3662397/posts?page=23#23

[Revolutionary]

But if it is warmer, then more water would be in the atmosphere. Thus sucking up much of the change.