Posted on 06/27/2007 2:14:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
What a relief!
I’ll sleep easier tonight, with this knowledge... ;]
Great... Just great... Now what am I supposed to do with that beach house in Flagstaff?!?
Oh yeah, I hear ya,, when polar ice sheets move, it’s tough to sleep too good.
Algore is deeply saddened.
Largest Ice Sheet Stable, but Vulnerable, Researchers Say
Wired News - Jun 27
Its vastness protects it from the immediate effects of global warming, but the world's largest ice sheet could be damaged if things get worse.
“The researchers found that from 13,000 to 7,000 years ago, when sea levels rose by more than 330 feet.....”
Well, I’m just glad there are folks like Big Al Gore around THIS time to stop this kind of tom-foolery.
This seems an appropriate thread to cite my recent observations on the retreat of glacial ice.
On a recent trip to Alaska and Canada I had the opportunity to observe several glaciers. Many had roads that allowed one to get close to the toe to make close observation. There were signs as you came closer.
In the csse of the Exit Glacier near Seward Alaska, the signs began perhaps 2 miles from the present toe location. They faithfully trcked the receding toe location. In the case of the Exit Glacier, a national park, the signs began in 1891. That is to say that the US government has been tracking receding glaciers since the 1890’s or for more than a hundred years.
In no instance were the tracking signs initiation less than the 1930’s. The enviros like to cite the glacial retreat but never let us know we have been doing the tracking for more than a hundred years.
Doubt me ..... go have a look. You’ll be glad you did.
“The researchers found that from 13,000 to 7,000 years ago, when sea levels rose by more than 330 feet”.
What were those people back then burning to cause this? It was caused by man, right? It just had to be. Al said so.
I wonder, Noah’s ark?
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Warming cannot make polar ice melt a drop until it reaches 32 degrees F at the ice fields. The point of scrimmage is only a very narrow latitude. That's all we have to manage, with man-made clouds, chemicals or nucleotides to raise the freezing point, plumbing of colder water from the pole, etc. We should develop a tool belt of ice management technologies but not do a thing until the oceans have risen worldwide a real and sizable amount. To date that just hasn't happened.
Maybe I was sleeping in chemistry in Jr High but I do remember that water expands as its frozen and its volume goes down as it changes into water. (90% of an iceberg sits below sea level, if the iceverg melts, 0 net sum gain in ocean level) Why wont the ocean levels go down if all this ice melts instead of go up 200 feet. Also I know that 1 inch of rain is equals to 10 inches of snow, so if the snow melts, its volume also goes down. Am I making any sense here?
It’ll take one hellacious volume of ice to make the Oceans rise 200 feet.
whenever researchers declare something is true, that’s when I worry about the opposite being true. I’ve never worried about Global Warming, but maybe now I should.
The Antarctic ice sheets are sitting on land, not floating.
Because these ice fields sit on land, not water.
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