Posted on 02/23/2022 12:59:14 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Acrack widens in the San Rafael glacier in Chile's extreme south, and a ten-storey iceberg crashes into the lake by the same name -- a dramatic reminder of the impacts of global warming.
In the lake San Rafael, about 100 icebergs float today, pieces broken off from the glacier that 150 years ago stretched out over two-thirds of the body of water now free of ice cover.
The San Rafael glacier is one of 39 in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field (3,500 square kilometers or 1,350 square miles), which with the Southern Patagonian Ice Field (11,000 km2) in Chile's Aysen region forms one of the world's biggest ice masses.
According to the European Space Agency satellite images show San Rafael to be one of the world's most actively calving glaciers and the fastest-moving in Patagonia, "flowing" at a speed of about 7.6 kilometers (4.7 miles) per year -- "receding dramatically under the influence of global warming.".......
All but two of Chile's 26,000 glaciers are shrinking, he said, due to rising temperatures caused by manmade greenhouse gas emissions......
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If climate change/global warming (or whatever they’re calling this week) was a huge problem and was going to kill millions of people, the democrats wouldn’t say a word about it. They want mass death like any other communist.
That’s what glaciers do , melt ,D’oh
why do all the glaciers in the southern hemisphere melt in the winter and then our glaciers melt in the summer...
global warming i tells ya.
Melting glaciers ultimately provide all the fresh water needed to grow the crops that feed the world. Want fries with that?
Adding to that, you can’t pay a good quarterback elite money.
Well I still have my running bet going with my friends here that Detroit will win a Super Bowl before the Cowboys win another one.
We go on our bucket list Alaska cruise in May. Did you speak up? Did you ask for proof or other? I’m not timid but while my wife agrees with me on the global warming hoax she’s likely to want me to keep my views to the two of us. Genuinely interested in how you deal with it then? And if you or anyone else on this thread would suggest I handle it. Thank you in advance.
Well we were with my extended family, many of whom are believers, so I pretty much just rolled my eyes. At least my wife pretty much agrees with me, but I wasn’t going to ruin the trip for everyone else.
After 25,000 years. the end of the last ice age has finally reached Chile,
Or it could be that melting glaciers could be an indicator of the end of the ICE AGE.
That’s exactly what it is.
Yep, we’re in the tail end of the last ice age. In a few hundred years it will start getting cold again. We should enjoy the warmth while we can.
You got that right.
And, the water line in Miami is right where it’s always been.
Hasn’t anybody in the MSM acknowledged that Caliph Baraq purchased one oceanside mansion in Massachusetts and is building another in Hawaii?
Bingo! Well put.
Last mini ice age only ended in last half of 19th century. What happens as the globe comes out of an ice age?
FACT: As glaciers melt and recede over time, the rate of glacial retreat increases, even with little or no increase in temperature.
This is due to something called the self shielding effect...as the mass of ice decreases, there is less ice to act as an insulator, hence the remaining ice will appear to melt faster. Just like ice cubes in a glass of water....as the ice melts and the cubes get smaller, they will appear to melt and disappear faster.
Historical global warming isn’t a hoax, but green house gases certainly don’t cause it.
A thousand foot high glacier covered North America.....I ask my hand wringing liberal Minnesota friends what caused it to melt? Where would you be living if it didn’t?
Their response is dead silence.....
Turn a blank sheet of paper sideways. On the left side write “weather event” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the right side of the paper. On the far right, write the words ‘man made global warming” in small letters, draw a circle around the words, and then draw a small arrow pointing to the circle with those words.
Now is there not a large amount of blank space? How often do you see a story which fills in this area? How often do words like sun and ocean appear?
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