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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: maddog55

“Aren’t we all supposed to be dead in about 8 1/2 years from globull warming.”

Actually, we were all supposed to be dead of mass starvation in the 1970s. You’re not that old, are you? ;-)


61 posted on 01/07/2023 11:43:37 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will never forget Glacier Lake in Kalifornia. The AlGore acolytes actually put up signs warning that all the ice that makes up Glacier Lake would be gone by.....2020.

Again, I sooo wish I could move forward in time, to the middle of the next Ice Age and watch the Comedy Channel showing AlGore and his minions stating “The Earth has a fever” as the viewers shiver in the cold.

https://nypost.com/2020/01/09/glacier-national-park-removes-signs-predicting-glaciers-will-be-gone-by-2020/


62 posted on 01/07/2023 11:44:43 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Glacier ice melt accounts for more than one-third of the rise in sea levels

What's 1/3 of nothing?

63 posted on 01/07/2023 11:45:00 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: rdl6989

According to the “experts”, those pesky glaciers should have been gone decades ago.


64 posted on 01/07/2023 11:45:05 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: crusty old prospector
Technically, these glaciers aren’t “melting” after all. They’re receding — and they’re not receding because they’re melting. A glacier is a river of ice that flows just like any other river. And they are receding because the ice fields that are the sources of these “rivers” aren’t getting enough precipitation to maintain the volume of ice flow in the glaciers.

Some of the most notable glaciers in the world are fed by ice fields that get so little precipitation that they’re classified as deserts.

65 posted on 01/07/2023 11:46:29 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: TheBattman

I remember being in college and hearing Al Gore (I heard this first-hand) say Manhattan and Florida would be under water by Y2K or thereabouts. Never happened.

They have scrubbed a lot of their predictions and statements going back to the mid 80’s when they flipped from the coming ice age to the “world has a fever”.

All of this “climate” crap boils down to two groups - useful idiots who hear and believe this nonsense and they really do want to “save the planet” and those in control of the movement who are globalists/fascists who correctly view this “crusade” as a vehicle to control humanity and become very wealthy.

It has become an organized religion or cult. In fact, many historical figures from the defunct USSR have openly admitted that it was hatched as as part of the plan by the KGB to undermine the West along with identity politics and other claptrap.

The USSR failed but communists in the West have never ceased their efforts to advance the poison pill(s). If Khrushchev were alive today he might feel a sense of fulfillment as he looks to the West.


66 posted on 01/07/2023 11:52:31 AM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Alberta's Child

Correct. There was more precipitation during the Ice Age compared to now. That allowed for large savannas to grow in the Southern Plains. All sorts of large bison, mammoths, sloths, tigers, etc. that are no longer around due to the lack of habitat.


67 posted on 01/07/2023 11:53:07 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Curiously, Barack Obama and Bill Gates both purchased hugely expensive ocean front homes in the last few years.

The Gates' home near San Diego already has a seven feet high and two feet thick concrete sea wall protecting it.

68 posted on 01/07/2023 11:55:58 AM PST by zeestephen (43,000)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AGAIN? Oh, no!


69 posted on 01/07/2023 11:58:00 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: wild74

Glaciers tend to be conveyor belts of solid water.


70 posted on 01/07/2023 11:59:39 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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

Nuff said...


71 posted on 01/07/2023 12:01:17 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: Savage Rider

Climate “Scientists” have learned that making 10 and 20 year predictions/projections are bad for their credibility.


72 posted on 01/07/2023 12:02:17 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wonderful news!

And if we were smart, we'd start building places to store all of this fresh water.

73 posted on 01/07/2023 12:02:41 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't care.

I'll be dead.

74 posted on 01/07/2023 12:03:51 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: wild74
Glaciers have been melting because that is what they do, they melt and there is not a thing we can do about it

Sometimes glaciers grow too. Glaciers have been growing because that is what they do, they grow and there is not a thing we can do about it

75 posted on 01/07/2023 12:06:53 PM PST by DrDavid (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What does Otzi the Iceman have to say about this?


76 posted on 01/07/2023 12:08:14 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

This is very good news. We will not be facing the ice age predicted by climate historians. Our children and their children will not only survive, they will thrive in the greener, warmer earth climate. CO2 truly is our friend!


77 posted on 01/07/2023 12:11:30 PM PST by Louis Foxwell (We are not fit to live free but must be enslaved to control the chaos of our unfettered appetites.)
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To: seowulf
Or George Gervin?


78 posted on 01/07/2023 12:15:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: elpadre

” I thought there was a war on mis-information.”

That’s a LIE—a BIG, FAT, STINKING, DEMOCRACY-ENDANGERING LIE!!!!

Off with his social media!


79 posted on 01/07/2023 12:15:21 PM PST by _longranger81
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the heat from Erf will melt the cheese on the moon.


80 posted on 01/07/2023 12:23:10 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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