Posted on 10/01/2009 9:09:02 PM PDT by JmyBryan
OXFORD, England (Reuters) – A rise of at least two meters in the world's sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday.
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Catastrophism ping.
Ping.
/johnny
Catastrophism ping.
JmyBryan wanting to tax people in ARKansas and BlackVeil wanting to castrate people. These aren't solutions people.
Cool, I’ll have beach front property.
Autumn. When leaves turn golden, harvests ripen, and the mass hysteria gets ratcheted up a few more notches.
Probably the same “ex spurts” predicting the coming Ice Age just a few years ago.
We’ll know they actually believe it when they stop inserting ‘almost’ into the statement. Then we can relax, stop being sucked into the various ‘prevention’ schemes, sit back, and watch it not happen.
But, of course, the moment they pronounce it hopeless, their chance of peddling their ‘solution’ disappears, so I doubt that’ll ever happen.
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When ice melts in a glass does the mass increase?
I don’t understand,why are iceburgs any different? Why will sea level rise?
“There is nothing we can do to stop this unless we manage to cool the planet. That would require extracting the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. There is no way of doing this on the sufficient scale known today,” he said. Dispose of CO2, all plant life dies, we get no 02, we die. These idiots are unreal.
Nuttiness seems to be the UK’s main export these days. They have scientists proposing to put particulates in the air to reflect sunlight, to lessen global warming. And they still look down their noses at us.
The only thing rising two feet is the level of B.S. I’m getting rid of my hip waders and heading for high ground.
We’ll know they actually believe it when the rich libs start selling their beachfront property.
Nothing else will convince me.
It looks like I’m finally going to have that Oceanfront Property in Arizona. Cool!
Our only hope is for the government to confiscate all of our wealth and property and freedoms.
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No, the mass doesn’t increase, but that is kind of irrelevant. The issue here is volume. In a closed system, like your ice cube in a glass, the volume would actually decrease if the ice melted, since ice is less dense than water (water expands when frozen). That’s why ice floats.
Now the oceans aren’t a closed system. There are plenty of glaciers that are not floating on the ocean, but located on land, like Greenland, or Antarctica. If these melted and the waters ran into the oceans, then the resulting additional water in the oceans might offset the DROP in sea level that would be caused by the melting of floating ice enough to cause the sea levels to rise.
Now, I don’t think this is going to happen due to man-made circumstances, but that is how their line of reasoning must go (I think).
“His best guess was a one meter rise this century, assuming three degrees warming, and up to five meters over the next 300 years.”
I can live with that.
Not people in general. Only Roman Polanski!
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