Posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
SYDNEY - Global warming was leading to an irreversible mass melting of the Antarctic ice and purging carbon from the atmosphere was the only solution to slow the process, an Australian climate scientist told Reuters on Wednesday.
Recent human activity has intensified global warming, which could result in a mass melting of Antarctica, said Zoe Thomas, a research fellow at the University of New South Wales who was part of an international team of scientists that recently published a paper on Antarctic ice melting.
The study showed the world could lose most of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which rests on the seabed and is fringed by floating ice, in a warmer world.
What were seeing with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, that this starting of the melt, once we reach a certain threshold, will continue despite our efforts to stop it, she told Reuters.
The team hopes to continue the research to determine how quickly the ice sheets responded to increased temperatures, which would help provide a more concrete time frame for the future.
Thomas said that the only thing that would slow down the ice melting was if economies across the world began de-carbonising themselves.
Once we commit to this de-carbonised future can then we start thinking about potential options for trying to remove carbon from the atmosphere, she added.
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the hundred plus active volcanos under the icepack of
Antartica has nothing to do with warming?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_Antarctica
https://www.livescience.com/41262-west-antarctica-new-volcano-discovered.html
I say, Look at the opportunity to explore for raw materials on the Antarctic continent!
Maybe they will find the hole to the inner Earth and the outlet at the North Pole!;-)
Every one of these climate hysteria artcles talks about a scenario that “could” or “might” happen. Given the track record of the envirohysteric movement’s oracles, that’s not high on the credibility index.
If mass melting is irreversible then take up water sports and relax.
You keep using that word . . .
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/south-pole
It’s 40 Below at the South Pole today, which is (I believe) at the height of summer in the southern hemisphere.
Correct?
Lava bubble causing global warming causing ‘irreversible’ mass melting in Antarctica: scientist.
Oh wait that can’t be possible it has to be man kind scientist say.
“Trust me, I’m a ‘Scientist’.”
Global warming was leading to an irreversible mass melting of the Antarctic ice ...
There might be some ice loss, but the vast majority of the ice will stay because of the blocking effect of the circumpolar current that helps isolate Antarctic weather from the rest of the earths weather.
‘Could’ in the data translates to ‘causing’ in the title. Well alrighty then.
I hate to break this to the uber morons... but for the vast majority of the earth’s history there were no polar ice caps... Just because that’s how it has been as long as humans have been alive, does not mean that’s how its always been....
coulda
Complete lies. Antarctic ice sheets freeze and melt in cycles, having nothing to do with humans.
Water shall never freeze again. Even with the Antarctic winter approaching. I also have this bridge in Brooklyn...
We’ve passed so many deadlines predicted by these false prophets we should be drowning at the beach during a heat wave in Colorado.
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