"Tipping point" on horizon for Greenland ice

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/4/08 | Alister Doyle

[andyandval]

Does not look good.

[dynachrome]

And the solution is to give all money and power to “Manbearpig”!

[Vigilanteman]

Qattara Depression

If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in northwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Medditerranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.

It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?

If this scare scenario is for real, why aren't any of them talking about digging the ditch?

[rdl6989]

Have no fear, the Goracle will save us. /sarcasm

[Red_Devil 232]

When the ice melts I will send them tomato seeds to plant.

[texson66]

Pray tell how the polar bears made it through all the other climate cycles for the last several millions of years????

Libtards love to give away all your money, and worry about things they have no control of, but would like for you to believe they can contol you!

[rod1]

For a moment I thought this was and article about frat-initiation cow tipping in Greenland.

[hinckley buzzard]

Many of these tipping points could be closer than we thought," lead author Timothy Lenton, of the University of East Anglia in England, told Reuters of the study

One marker for the fact you're dealing wih an unethical huckster of junk-science is the readiness to traffic in drug-store paperback cliches as if they mean something.

"Tipping points" is one recent addition to the phoney baloney pseudo-intellectual lexicon.

[elpadre]

“...wrote in a report saying there were many little-understood thresholds in nature.”

that is an understatement - however, prior to the advent of this UN/Gore hysteria scientists used to teach that there are cycles and rhythms to nature both climate, biological and other areas. I still do believe these things are part of that cycling and rhythmical sequence.

[Congressman Billybob]

The reporters are too clueless to notice. But these academic wh*res should have noticed that the Artic Ice is nearly back to the most it ever has been, in the last century. Same with Greenland.

Lies only last as long as the public are not paying attention. Of late, the public IS paying more attention. And, the press is getting a deservedly tarnished reputation.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Enoch, Anna, and Me"

A Freeper in Congress? Please act now.

[kinoxi]

The magnetic poles shifting into Siberia has not been mentioned in this article. The Sun’s increased out put will never be mentioned. I guess people do these things to the solar system. I fart and the Sun makes it hotter so run your hydrogen vehicle on a system that requires fossil fuels to make the hydrogen. Weren’t we all supposed to have personal airplanes by now? This is 2008 after all.

[socialismisinsidious]

From the article:
could trigger
almost always damaging
likely to occur
potentially contribute
surrounded by large uncertainty
could set off
projected drying
could be closer
can disrupt
possible greening
could set off
that could then
foresees a rise
ranging up to
reckons that
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could stoke

That's a lot of loony liberal hedging. And monkeys could fly out their...

[commish]

Good god, this reads like a stupid psychic reading rather than a science article. Tipping points, thresholds, blah blah blah yada yada yada. Sounds like astrology.

[MtnClimber]

I worry about the “Tipping Point” for these peoples logic. The point where up becomes down and left becomes right. Ultimately evil becomes good.

[Always Right]

Even a moderate warming could set off a thaw of Greenland's ice sheet that could then vanish in 300 years -- raising sea levels by 6 meters (20 ft), or 2 meters a century and threatening coasts, Pacific islands and cities from Bangkok to Buenos Aires.

We have made INCREDIBLE progress in the last year. Just a year ago, it was gonna melt by 2100. We added 200 years to the destruction of the earth. Let's party!

[Always Right]

Monkeys flying out of their rear would be far more probable.

[svcw]

You mean Greenland will go back to way the it was when it was first settled many centuries ago: you know where people farmed and lived for generations before it got to damn cold.
The down side is what?

[Rapscallion]

Global warming which will reduce the mass of the polar caps, will change the dynamics of the earth's rotation. We will wobble off our axis, perhaps even reversing the earth's magnetic polarity or causing us to even spin out of our orbit.

QUESTION FOR ALGORE: How can we handle our wobbly axis? Are wobble credits available?

[palmer]

Tipping points used to at least contain a positive feedback loop (e.g. warming creating greenhouse gas, creating warming). Now tipping points are all feelings and no models or quantities at all. So all the arctic ice melts and ocean is darker, how are they modeling the corresponding changes in clouds? Ans: they aren't, they are just whining. See my article on tipping points: http://powerproxy.com/gw/myths.html#tippingpoint