Also, he said the Viking colony that was there starved to death due to climate change.
Me, I think we're still coming out of the Ice Age.
So if its happened before, prior to the Industrial Revolution????
So Greenland might actually might be green someday?
I think I heard Pat Robertson say that it is God melting the ice to punish the liberals on the east and west coasts.
"Collapse" was very good. Required reading, IMHO.
"It was thought the entire Greenland ice sheet could melt in about 1,000 years, but the latest evidence suggests that could happen much sooner."
So in 999 years, maybe? *Snort*
Maybe they just weren't measuring them right before. I don't think they know what they are talking about.
Global sea levels up by 7 meters?
That's quite a bit more than I woulda thought.
You are probably familiar with the viking farm that was buried when the ice advanced, that has in recent years been uncovered thanks in part to the withdrawal of the ice; it is an archaelogical dig site.
Gulp! That means we are gonna have to start drinking more water.
The History Channel did a piece on Greenland that said the same thing; perhaps it was based on that book. The archaeological evidence suggests that the settlers increasingly tried to keep their livestock alive in barns over the ever-harsher winters but eventually had to turn almost exclusively to fish as the climate no longer supported growing enough forage. Turned out they weren't very good at fishing and didn't have enough food.
Mankind did ot beofre, and will have to do it again. The only difference thgis time is that we have the MSM & evironazis yammering about it non-stop.
An even brighter side is that this makes should make moot any plans to rebuild NOLA.
I thought global warming was going to stop or slow down the gulf stream, making that part of the world much colder. How would Greanland continue to warm?
Wait a minute. I've spent a lot of time in Greenland, and I really like it. It's beautiful, with HUGE potential and would be a great place to live if it were only a bit warmer. Maybe I'd be wise to start buying up icy real estate for the coming boom? It's cheap now...
Someday we might have to build some huge desalinization plants and create thousands of new man-made lakes and reservoirs in inland areas. If the lakes are deep enough, they could take a lot of water out of the oceans. I hear Las Vegas is running short of water.
Do you have any idea how much water you would have to add to the worlds "contiguous Oceans to increase the level even a fraction of an inch????? What BS!
**It implies that sea levels will rise a great deal faster as well. **
OK if California disappears! LOl!
The whole article dances around the ACTUAL OBSERVED FACT that ocean levels aren't rising at all currently, in spite of the "ravages" of "global warming".
A few years ago I saw a TV show about a wealthy dude who dug up a World War fighter that was one of several that had to crash land in Greenland. Since WWII it had become buried with about one hundred feet of snow. I don't understand how this jives with global warming. Can anyone explain this.
Dittoes the stone age man found frozen in northern Europe.
From the article it sounds as though there is close to 5M cubic km of ice left which would take about 22,000 years to melt at 220 cubic km per year.
When it gets to 2,000 cubic km per year, let me know and I'll start planning.
However, the last data I saw (U. Michigan study) indicated that the ice was growing in the interior, while melting near the sea -- for about a net-zero effect.