Posted on 06/28/2005 12:45:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
These kinds of nightmares are for little babies.
Somehow, Holland handled the problem. ;)
Help me understand this... if we are talking about ice melting that is not supported by a land mass, then we have a rise in sea levels?
Try this one out (simplistic I know)... throw three or four ice cubes in a glass. Fill glass to almost overflowing. Allow ice cubes to melt. See what happens.
A few more meters and I would have ocean front property. I guess it's too early to say SURF'S UP.
They took this into account by identifying ice sheets that are supported by land. They may not have allowed for rebound.
FRANCE SUBMERGED: FRENCHMEN BATHE..
Funny how the author of this article failed to mention that the flash floods and sweltering heat that have swept across Britain during the past few weeks could also not be a harbinger of major problems in the future.
Ahhh, another environmental wacko spewing doom and gloom.
The continent of Antarctica is 1 1/2 times the size of the US and holds 90% of the world's ice. The data show there's a small section called the Antarctic Peninsula that's melting and calving icebergs such as the one a year or so ago that was the size of Rhode Island.
But the rest of the continent, the vast majority of the continebt is getting colder and the ice thicker. Antarctica is getting colder not warmer.
Source:Parkinson, C.L. 2002, "Trends in the length of the southern Ocean sea-ice season", Annals of Glaciology, Vol.
34:435-440.
Conclusion: the greatest part of Antarctica experiences a longer sea-ice season, lasting 21 days longer than it did in 1979.
I've read other studies that reported that even with worse-case plausible scenarios, speculating on major spikes in global temperature, the Antarctic ice would take thousands of years to melt.
This should help the Tories. Oops! It also would mean that the Netherlands and Belgium would disappear along with major parts of France. Answer: return to horses and carriages in those countries and do it quickly! Junk science has infected the Euros big time.
Mankinds arrogance is a wonder to behold. What makes folks think that we can change the weather?? Weather happens, climates change. All this happens inspite of global warming, cooling, or whatever. One big volcano exploding somewhere on the planet can alter the weather for years. WEATHER HAPPENS!!!!! I'm sooooo tired of these foolish chicken little's. CNN had a propaganda piece on the "reality" of global warming. GRRRRRRR, RUBISH!!!
How many papers would that sell?
Man-made Global WarmingTM is a MYTH!
Man-made Global WarmingTM is a MYTH!
Man-made Global WarmingTM is a MYTH!
See link at post #17.
In a doomsday scenario, the melting of ice sheets caused by global warming could mean that Scotland's major coastal conurbations, including Edinburgh, Dundee and Inverness, and smaller settlements such as Peterhead and Ullapool, could be wiped off the map completely
Where the heck will the Open Championship be played?
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