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Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland's glaciers lurking beneath the ice
CNN ^ | Feb 4, 2020 | Gisela Crespo

Posted on 02/04/2020 3:54:07 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface melting on Greenland's ice sheet.

But a new study has found another threat that has begun attacking the ice from below: Warm ocean water moving underneath the vast glaciers is causing them to melt even more quickly......

This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; globalwarming; greenland
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.”


So?

People forget that the ice is always being increased and then melting.

It’s a cycle.

BTW, it was in the 70’s yesterday in Kentucky. Sunday it was only in the high 60’s. I got to grade my 1/4 mile driveway which had been needing it. It was a beautiful day for it.


21 posted on 02/04/2020 4:33:00 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Can we please stop with all the Chicken Little stuff?


22 posted on 02/04/2020 4:35:25 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Probably 24 millimeters.


23 posted on 02/04/2020 4:38:42 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland's glaciers lurking beneath the ice

Corrected version

Climate nonsense: CNN invents another phony narrative to bolster the myth that the sky is falling

They only time CNN gets anything right is when they accidentally put in the opposite of what they meant to say.

24 posted on 02/04/2020 4:39:20 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Raycpa
OK - I am calling BS! To raise the worlds 139,400,000 square miles oceans 24 feet, Greenland's 836,300 square miles would have to melt off 4000.48 feet of ice (that is, if 100% of the island were ice covered).

Something doesn't compute here...

25 posted on 02/04/2020 4:50:03 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Here we go again, more BS from CNN’s reporting!


26 posted on 02/04/2020 4:53:01 AM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Is that all? Hell thats not enough to give me waterfront property. Dang.


27 posted on 02/04/2020 4:57:02 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why even bother to link to a CNN article?
Really.
Truth is not their friend.
And science is most definitely NOT their friend.


28 posted on 02/04/2020 4:58:22 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jonrick46

Iceland uses geothermal heat - no way that could be relevant to Greenland.....Trump gave Greenland’s geothermal rights to the Russians....


29 posted on 02/04/2020 5:04:21 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: jonrick46

It’s a huge fire breathing water dragon! We are all going to die…


30 posted on 02/04/2020 5:05:05 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: ptsal

Escape from New York comes to mind. Wilhelm Is going to need to increase the height of his wall bigly


31 posted on 02/04/2020 5:06:59 AM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: wastoute
"OK here, as well. Bring it on!"

HOW DARE YOU!!

32 posted on 02/04/2020 5:12:57 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I don’t buy the math at all. The volume of the glaciers is less than water. Unless the glaciers cover the earth there is no way enough melted water to increase the sea level by 24 feet. It’s BS.


33 posted on 02/04/2020 5:14:39 AM PST by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Let me be the first to ask...

How the Hell does a continental ice sheet, that sits over LAND, get warm ocean currents under it?

The Greenland ice cap is over land, not ocean. Very little sticks out into the water. Mostly the coast of Greenland is just barren, rocky peninsulas and fjords.


34 posted on 02/04/2020 5:25:39 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Nanotalik, Greenland. A typical village on the Greenland coast:

I'm just puzzled as to how a warm ocean current gets under all that rock.

More photos of the Greenland coast here.

35 posted on 02/04/2020 5:29:37 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Scientists find another threat to Greenland's...

Too late, Denmark should have sold when they had the chance.

36 posted on 02/04/2020 5:34:15 AM PST by C210N
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To: wastoute

But if it flushes out SF think of the turds floating in the ocean


37 posted on 02/04/2020 5:47:21 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet.

When floating ice melts, the height of the water level decreases, not increases.

Augh!

38 posted on 02/04/2020 5:50:16 AM PST by Egon
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Underneath the Greenland ice cap is land, or so I’ve always heard. If this is true, then how can ocean water be flowing under the Greenland ice cap to melt it?


39 posted on 02/04/2020 5:51:08 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Scientists have long known

'Stopped reading right there' alert!!!

40 posted on 02/04/2020 5:53:28 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (A law means nothing if it isnÂ’t followed.)
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