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Half of world's glaciers will vanish by year 2100 due to global warming, study says
UPI ^ | January 6, 2023 | By A.L. Lee

Posted on 01/07/2023 10:49:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Half of the world's glaciers will melt and disappear before the turn of the next century, according to alarming new research that predicts greater fallout from global warming despite meaningful efforts in recent years to address environmental concerns.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, projects that nearly 50% of the Earth's natural ice will dissolve by the year 2100, which is much quicker than scientists previously calculated if the planet warmed by only 1.5C -- a benchmark set by hundreds of nations to cut emissions and protect more land for nature and the environment.

The world's oceans would rise dramatically under such a scenario and lead to flooding and other major disasters around the world, according to the study, which analyzed glacial land ice but excluded Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets.

Glacier ice melt accounts for more than one-third of the rise in sea levels, scientists say. Melting occurs naturally, but the climate crisis and increased temperatures have sped up the decline.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Half of world's glaciers will vanish by year 2100"

Damn the luck.!!

101 posted on 01/07/2023 1:16:42 PM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The study, published Thursday in the journal Science…

Who?

This, like almost everything these days, is all about money.

102 posted on 01/07/2023 1:19:13 PM PST by Allegra
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They always push it back to where they’ll not be around to admit they were lying.


103 posted on 01/07/2023 1:28:45 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Global warming?? What happened to climate change?


104 posted on 01/07/2023 1:31:40 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Easy math to calculate ocean sea level rises.

Per a quick internet search fir surface area of the worlds oceans = 139 million square miles.

Convert that area to square feet = 3.875e15 SF

To raise the level by 1 in (0.0833ft) x 3.875e15 = 322,795,630,080,000 cubic feet of water

4,944,053,341,008,403 cubic feet of water contained in the worlds glaciers.

By dividing the cubic feet/inch by the volume of the glaciers that = approximately 15 inches of rise. Divide that by 2 and the predicted sea level increase by 2100 is 7.5 inches per this article.

My current sea level elevation is approximately 740 feet.


105 posted on 01/07/2023 1:34:47 PM PST by shotgun
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To: GOPJ

“Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020 CNN” — January 8, 2020"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-2020-trnd/index.html

The signs are still there. They simply removed the 2020 prediction and replaced it with, "When they [the glaciers] will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking."

The claim is still wrong, as many of the glaciers are actually growing. The NPS is playing games with photos (e.g., summer vs winter, black-and-white vs color) to make it look otherwise.

Climate Alarmists Meltdown Over Glacier National Park (Except When They’re Growing)

106 posted on 01/07/2023 1:37:38 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great! We need fewer glaciers and more warming!!


107 posted on 01/07/2023 1:45:41 PM PST by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Half of world’s glaciers…”
RIGHT.
AND I HAVE SOME LAND ON THE MOON I’D LIKE TO SELL…
CHEAP.


108 posted on 01/07/2023 1:48:12 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: budj

Don’t these people realize how stupid they sound?
They should go stand in front of a mirror and spout that nonsense.


109 posted on 01/07/2023 1:50:26 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: wild74

I’m sure Lake Mead could use one of those glaciers.


110 posted on 01/07/2023 1:51:52 PM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I used to live in Vancouver, Washington. The house I owned would have been under ice if the glacier that scoured out that plain hadn't melted at some point.

Melting glaciers are part of the natural environment.

111 posted on 01/07/2023 1:52:05 PM PST by BruceS
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Scientists?” Pfffttt.


112 posted on 01/07/2023 2:06:09 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

See that snow on top of Mount Kilimanjaro? That photo was taken on December 23, 2022. All Gore said that would be gone by 2012... It's now 2023 and that snow is till there, and in 100 years... It will still be there.

113 posted on 01/07/2023 2:09:59 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, so by 2100, we can expect to see more of them.


114 posted on 01/07/2023 2:36:03 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought they were scheduled to melt before 2000...


115 posted on 01/07/2023 2:38:38 PM PST by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: zeestephen
The Gates' home near San Diego already has a seven feet high and two feet thick concrete sea wall protecting it.
His wall isn't to keep the sea out, it's to keep Epstein's files in.
116 posted on 01/07/2023 3:03:46 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Greenland had lush forests and wild life, where were the ice caps back then? Could it be they melt and re appear at another location? Maybe the axis shifts every million years or so? Our solar system doesn’t stand still or stays on the exact path in one location. Its moving like the rest of the universe. Who knows what kind of invisible pockets we glide through in space that control our temperatures? (Rhet.)


117 posted on 01/07/2023 3:08:12 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Great observation


118 posted on 01/07/2023 3:11:56 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If all the ice melted, then earth would enter a tremendous cooling period that would bring back an ice age.

God didn’t make a one-way street.


119 posted on 01/07/2023 3:14:16 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and when they dont... everyone who said they would will be long dead and the new generation of climate liars will simply move the goal posts to 2200


120 posted on 01/07/2023 3:32:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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