Posted on 03/25/2008 8:37:47 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Maybe not until a few million years away. By that time, we’ll have life on Mars.
I wonder why they didn’t mention the underwater volcano. Of course that wouldn’t have anything to do with the ice melting.
Right now, Al Gore is trying to figure out how to get polar bears on the collapsing ice pictures.
Ice does take up more space than water. However IF it is floating, then it displaces exactly the same volume of water that it would occupy if melted. That's fresh water ice floating on fresh water. Things a little bit more complicated when it's fresh, or less salty, water ice floating on saltier water.
Excellent. That is the obvious, in-your-face fact that this article completely ignores.
No? Every other year, we hear of a shelf the size of Connecticut falling in. This one is a pipsqueak, not even as big a Rhode Island.
Good grief -- it's what ice shelves do: slide too far off the land, then break.
You’ve got it! Al Gore must be loving this thread.
Biased reporting is a kind term to use what the
dummies are writing. They are supposed to be scientific
writers and they show a terrible lack of how nature
works. Makes you think they got their diploma from
the cartoon channel. The part that penisula where ice
is breaking away in in slightly warm ocean currents
that are part of the global climate shift. And that slightly warmer water puts moisture into the air currents
that travel to interior Antarctica where the cold makes
a huge snow amounts. Like the lake effects snow we have here in MI. And there are places in the interior of
Antarctica where temps have dropped over 15 degrees in last few tears. So it will collect a lot of snow,
during climate shifts, most of which is the transfer
of energy by ocean currents. Ed
BS, I call BS. Wow, when these a**hats give it up?
Actually, if I recall correctly, this ice sheet/block is sitting on top of an undersea volcano. Couldn’t have anything to do with it? And even if not, the size sounds big, but it is miniscule compared to the overall ice coverage in the Antarctic.
he’s been conspicuously absent during the cold, wet, winter
I actually read [almost] the whole thing. Just skimmed throught the "letters", since I'd seen them already.
“he’s been conspicuously absent during the cold, wet, winter”
You got that right, as summer heats up, Gore will be out preaching big time, it’s an election year too.
OH NO! The whole world is DOOMED.
“Or maybe completely encase the sun in a sphere of solar panels,”
Freeman Dyson already thought of that, the Dyson Sphere, and you don’t even need solar cells, TEC modules work fine.
It is already floating in the ocean. Think ice cubes floating in a glass of water. Even if it were a significant amount it wouldn't change the level.
“That only works for the Arctic. Antarctica is a continent; the ice is on land and not displacing seawater.”
It is pretty hard for a floating ice chunk to fall off of land.
“You are not filling up the Grand Canyon. We’ll take about 300 feet of it, but that’s all.”
Do I hear 600?
“12 Sep 07 - The Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979. The Southern Hemispheric areal coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice extent.”
Since 1979, when we were supposedly heading for another ice age, thanks to big gas guzzlers (SUVs weren’t invented then) and those thoughtless people who kept their thermostats too high and didn’t turn off lights or wear sweaters in the house. Sound familiar?
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