Posted on 07/10/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Rising sea levels have been mostly measured in inches in the past decades, but scientists said they could increase more than 20 feet in the future as global warming continues to melt ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
The dire projections are based on a look back at the climate record, with scientists finding that increases of 20 feet have happened at least twice over the past 3 million years when temperatures were very similar to what they are today.
Peter Clark, an Oregon State paleoclimatologist and another co-author of the study, said that because current carbon dioxide levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, "we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise."
"The ominous aspect to this is that CO2 levels are continuing to rise, so we are entering uncharted territory," Clark said. "What is not as certain is the time frame, which is less well-constrained. We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets."
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Well, California... get busy and desalinate that Pacific water and take care of that thirsty interior!
Oh, come one! Sea level rise; they aren’t even trying anymore :-(
And we could ALL help, by filling every plastic bottle with water, and putting the cap back on.... before recycling the bottle. The folks having to recycle the bottles may hate you because your recycling bin is now 8.33 pounds of liquid per gallon heavier.... but they could ship it to California and they could dump it out, there. I have my water straight out of the well. FEDGOV Inc. has not figured out how to tax me yet on pumping my own water... and let me tell you, fellow FReepers, the water that I pump out of the ground, is 10,000x better than ANY municipal water that I have tasted. Maybe I will use the rain water to fill the containers.
Most of the ice in the world is located in Antartica, which is a continent. If the ice melts off Antartica and flows into the ocean then yes, the sea level will rise considerably. However, in order to do that, Antartica would have to be above freezing temperatures, which it isn’t. Any large scale melting of Antartica would take millenia of higher temperatures.
Then the leprechauns riding on their multi-coloured unicorns will come and open the 7500 foot tall can or corned beef that will arouse Cthuhlu to awaken from his long slumber and turn all humanity into giant ping pong balls!
WHAT global warming? Still waiting after 18 years.
I’d better keep my boat and in good condition if this is the case.
I think I am 18 feet above sea level.
"The ominous aspect to this is that CO2 levels are continuing to rise, so we are entering uncharted territory," Clark said. "What is not as certain is the time frame, which is less well-constrained. We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets."
So, in the span of several million years this has happened two times and the projected time frame for this happening is somewhere between several hundred to a few thousand years and THIS is supposed to have us worried?
Maybe some of these morons should do some research to find out what society's biggest concerns were 500 or 1000 years ago and see how significant these issues look today.
Better yet, what EXACTLY did mankind do to cause the seas two rise on the other two occasions in three million years and what EXACTLY could mankind have done to prevent it? Because, there's no point in even discussing this if we didn't cause it and we can't prevent it.
Didn't Paul Ehrlich predict that this would happen by 1970?
Didn't the pope say that this already happened and we are already underwater?
Didn't Sheldon Whitehouse say that we better not mention that we don't believe any of this or we will all wind up in jail?
These people were right ... 16,500 years ago when the glaciers began to melt and sea level rose between 400-700 feet ...
OMG! Tax something! Ban something! Tear down a flag! Call someone a racist! DO SOMETING!!!
“Could”?
As in consulting their crystal balls and seeing the future?
What also could happen is that cyborg terminators could wage a war for control of the planet against genetically modified flying monkeys.
It could happen.
Isn’t this all a moot point because Prince Charles insisted in 2008 the world only had 18 months to do something about “global warming?”
And just yesterday I was reading that Antarctic ice pack was largest ever recorded. Guess the weather, science, and fanatics don’t share info.
So how’d they fix it back then? *
Tax money, lots and lots of tax money that's what worked back then. They used dead flies and sea shells as currency. Org the Socialist got large fees charging up to 12 gopher pelts to give talks about it.
Tax money. That's the only way to fix it.
Putting the pope in charge of the world might help a little bit...
So let's destroy our economies now in preparation for something that may or may not even happen, and if does, it won't be during our lifetimes.
Back a few years there was a 40 year drought a friend told me experienced in NC. The lib legislature, the tax and spend leftie legislature catering to the urban voters, actually proposed water meters be required on wells on private land. So that the usage could be taxed (oh, and monitored). So it could happen— oregon has initiated tax by the mile automobile tax above and beyond gas tax. Looons.
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