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To: LucyT

Sends asteroids and comets into the Earth, eh ? That would be bad if a large enough shower of them hit Antarctica. There is over a mile of ice on that continent and its area is equal to 4% of the area of all the oceans. If something were to scour all the ice off and dump it into the ocean, it wouldn’t even need to melt to raise sea levels. Sea levels would rise 200+ feet overnight, wiping out most coastal cities and all of Florida, etc. Even without the energy transfer and vaporised rock filling the atmosphere we’d be done.

Not hundreds of years from now the way the AGW crowd worries about, but literally overnight.


50 posted on 04/06/2016 10:53:42 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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To: Kellis91789
" ...it wouldn’t even need to melt to raise sea levels."

(A-hem...)

Small point ..... Ice displaces more volume than liquid water.

Sea levels are rising because of planetary cooling, not warming. Both polar caps have grown in recent years. That's why the levels are up.

You can prove this for yourself in your own kitchen with a glass filled with ice water.
Mark it's volume at the start and then check it after the ice melts.

Then explain the good news to your Enviro-Whacko friends.

57 posted on 04/06/2016 11:04:24 PM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Kellis91789

“Guess I picked the wrong week to quit smoking”.


124 posted on 04/07/2016 2:35:16 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Kellis91789

“......most life on Earth is mysteriously wiped out every 26 million to 27 million years.”....

Would they please stop in DC BEFORE it hits the rest of us?

Another dooms day “chicken little” prognostic. “The sky is falling, the sky is falling....”


133 posted on 04/07/2016 4:44:52 AM PDT by DaveA37
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