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Posted on 02/05/2009 3:45:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington, D.C., and other coastal U.S. cities could find themselves under several more feet of water than previously predicted if warming temperatures destroy the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a new study based on a model predicts.
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) towers about 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) above sea level over a large section of Antarctica. It holds about 500,000 cubic miles (2.2 million cubic kilometers) of ice, about the same amount of ice contained in the Greenland Ice Sheet.
This vast swath of ice is the anchor for numerous glaciers that drain into the polar sea and is bounded by the Ross and Ronne Ice Shelves. Whether or when this ice sheet might melt is still very uncertain, but even a partial melt would have a bigger impact on some coastal areas than others.
The new research found that sea level rise would not be uniform around the globe, owing to odd gravitational effects and predicted shifts in the planet's rotation.
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What horseshit.
Bummer...
That recent study was done with poor quality data. They also point out on climateaudit that the sensors measuring the supposed rise in temperature are buried under 5 or 10 feet of new snow every year.
The writer fails to consider the qatarrah depression in Egypt that would receive an enormous amount of Med overflow. Once the flow into the depression, the seepage in the porous desert begins and the great Sahara rehydration then begins.
As the Atlantic level rises, there is an increase in flow through the Pillars of Hercules and the med
When adequately hydrated the great North African wheat producing regions will again provide cropland missongfor at least 500 years.
>>The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.<<
Doesn’t sound very likely to happen, to me (in spite of the computer modeling assumptions), once we put things in context.
Suppose that 500,000 cubic miles of ice = 500,000 cubic miles of liquid water (which it doesn’t, since water expands as it freezes - hence, floating ice).
Several sources note that the oceans contain about 328,000,000 (328 million) cubic miles of water.
With a little math, we find that the ice in question is about 0.15% (1.52 x10EE-3) of the total water in the oceans (or something less, considering ice contracts in volume as it melts).
A pretty minor amount - about one ounce (2 tablespoons) of water in five gallons.
Not that flooding DC out would be all that bad, IMHO. This sounds more like an Augean Stable sort of task...
Blah Blah Blah
They are becoming so shrill that their nagging becomes just an uncomfortable background noise.
Has anyone asked these mo fo’s to prove it? If all it flooded was DC, I would be all for it.
And monkeys could fly out of my butt.
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If these guys are trying to scare people to get more grant money - why not say “under a hundred feet of water” and really scare everyone? I mean, shake that tree...
If I thought it would bury DC under water, I’d be out there with four space heaters and a blow torch.
That is one big IF. Now we know from an earlier article posted today that heavy snows or very cold weather is also a sign of global warming. Which is it. What if all freshwater is deposited in Antarctica as snow and the rest of the inhabited earth winds up with no surface water.
I mean what if.
I vote Yea!
Cool! Since I live on one of the highest points in Alexandria, I’ll have lakeside property!
Is that so?
Damnit, what did I do with the keys to my V8 truck? (As if that actually had any impact on it)
Promise?
Time to crank up the heat.....
You can bet your life its based on the fallacy exposed by NewsBusters here:
http://newsbusters.org/node/27972/print
The single news article revealing this error can be read here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4332784/Despite-the-hot-air-the-Antarctic-is-not-warming-up.html
I guess the rest will be extrapolated junk like this one.
Let it sink!
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