West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, causing significant sea level rise, experts warn

foxnews.com ^ | 3/31/2016 | unknown

[rktman]

Scientists are warning that the West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, potentially causing sea levels to rise more than 49 feet by 2500.

The study published in the journal Nature this week, cites the impact of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. Collapsing Antarctic ice could cause sea levels to rise more than 3 feet by 2100, say co-authors Rob DeConto, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard, a palaeoclimatologist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.

If emissions continue unabated, the scientists warn, atmospheric warming will soon become a “dominant driver” of ice loss, with prolonged ocean warming delaying its recovery for thousands of years.

[ABN 505]

I hate it when the ice in my glass melts and it overflows on the table.

[skimbell]

"Global Warming?

He11, I thought that this was another "if Trump gets elected article".

[skimbell]

If two trains, both traveling at 63mph, one in new York and one in San Francisco, each headed in a different direction...

[GraceG]

[ I hate it when the ice in my glass melts and it overflows on the table. ]

Said nobody never....

You get more water on the table via condensation on the outside of the cup...

[rktman]

LOL! No, the year 2500. Not the sea level rise. Now you can start worrying. It’s just around the corner.

[rktman]

Sager and Evans.

[oldasrocks]

I think big boobs causes eye strain. Give me a Grant to pay a few hundred big boobed women to parade in swimming suits in front of volunteers to check it out.

[5th MEB]

If they are talking about the continental ice sheet they might get a sea level rise of a few centimeters.
If they are talking about the oceanic ice sheet they are not real scientists, in fact they are just ordinary morons.
Floating ice displaces water, when it melts there is no change in the liquid level.
I learned that in the 5th grade.

[Gator113]

I am at 1000’ and 3.5 miles of unobstructed view from the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Let ‘er rip!

I wish there was some way we could speed this up.

[1Old Pro]

If two trains, both traveling at 63mph, one in new York and one in San Francisco, each headed in a different direction...

The Cruz supporter on the Frisco train and the Trump supporter on the NY train would write anti-the other guy posts on FR at THE SAME TIME.

[cp124]

By then we can figure out how to control the sun with a thermostat.

[rktman]

LOL! Maybe you should apply for a grant.

[Foolsgold]

An ice shelf is already in the water...

and as that ice melts it take up less space not more.

[stylin19a]

The research uses a model that combines ice sheet and climate dynamics, as well as processes that link atmospheric warming with “hydrofracturing of buttressing ice shelves and structural collapse of marine-terminating ice cliffs,”

what's the difference between this and calving ?

[BatGuano]

Pity indeed. These pseudo scientists better stop drinking their bathwater or they will scare someone into doing something rash. Also, strike off UMass Amherst and Penn State as potential schools for your loved ones.

[BatGuano]

That “retrograde motion and prograde motion” sounds like dirty talk to me!

[SubMareener]

That “retrograde motion and prograde motion” sounds like dirty talk to me!
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Gestation, it is just gestation. Turns out to be about 9 months, but that is probably just a coincidence. ;-)

[BatGuano]

I’m thinking it describes “doin the old in and out.”

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Let me see it first—the chicken little effect is no longer enforced. When it happens—we can fix it! After all, we are Americans.

[Enterprise]

If a solution is helpful, the left will oppose it. They want the problem, not the solution.