Posted on 11/08/2013 6:40:54 AM PST by oxcart
Explore the world’s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet.
The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas.
There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.
Dear NatGeo,
CO2 levels FOLLOW temperature trends, they don’t “CAUSE” temperature change.
Since you or anybody else are incapable of accurately modeling water vapor in the atmosphere, why would we care about your CO2 models?
With water vapor comprising over 93% of “greenhouse gases”, getting that part right is necessary before paying any attention to measuring variations among other elements.
It looks like Montreal and Vancouver would be under water, in adsdition to many lefty Us cities.
Unfortunately, many from Canada’s Left coast would move to Calgary. NOOOOOOOOOO!
Carbon, poisonous carbon, the deadly base element in all life.
I only read Nat Geo for the pictures of topless indegenous women. If the Earth warmed that much, many more women would go topless.
What about all the ice machines, could we gather them all up from fast food restaurants, convenience stores everywhere and move them to the poles to prevent this horrific catastrophe? We must save the leap year.
The writers are not stupid, they are indoctrinated. This is intentional information control Goebbels would be proud.
GOD has frozen the Arctic back to record Ice Pack levels and the Earth is cooling so natgeo... YOU LIE!
And the central valley is a huge agricultural area. Would affect the food supply.
Or, maybe one on "what if" the molten core at the center of the earth spewed it's contents onto the surface for some (similarly non-scientific) reason.
Or, maybe an article on "what if" a giant asteroid flew near by and was caught in earth's orbit to provide a second moon, and the tidal impact that would have on our planet. The pointless, fictional possibilities for stories like this one are endless.
NatGeo = science fiction mag.
What’s not to like about that? It’d be fun to watch the politicians climb to the tallest building like fleas on a drowning dog!
I watched the draining of the Great Lakes the other night as well. Thought it was fascinating— I’d been on Superior and Michigan this past summer.
Just 216 feet? I need the sea level to go up about 250 feet so I can live on an island.
The entire story about ozone holes was based on faulty "science" and poor reporting. What happened, is they launched a satellite that could measure ozone. It showed periodic thinning. As usual, the professional chicken littles ran around screaming that the sky was falling. What was left out of the breathless "reporting" was that they had no means to determine if this wasn't something that was normal and cyclical, and had been happening for millions of years. Of course, that had no impact on the dramatic pronouncements. Turns out, this thinning is related to sunspot cycles (surprise!).
The bit about the whole 'disappearing ozone layer' that I find to be most interesting is related to the identified culprit - CFCs. You see Dow Chemical had a patent on the current CFCs that were being used in ACs and other industrial applications. Sadly for DOW, the patent was about to expire, so any corporation could have gone into business making them. Fortunately for DOW, they had a newly-patented substitute handy, and managed to get the government to essentially destroy potential competitors before they even got a chance to compete.
Crony capitalism is a great thing. If you're a crony capitalist, that is.
Water expands as it freezes (as any 4th-grade science student would know). Consequently, if the ice floating in all the worlds oceans melted, it would actually LOWER sea levels, since the floating ice takes up more volume than the liquid water.
It’s not Crony Capitalism when you use the power of the State to give you a monopoly. It’s Crony Fascism or Crony Communism.
Next issue “If giant condors had brains the size of humans, oposible thumbs, automatic weapons and a taste for human flesh!”
and if gravity went away...
and if the strong force went away...
and if sunshine was molasses...
The thing that really cracked me up about the movie, were the scenes of the huge volumes of water suddenly freezing. I had to assume that the people making the movie had no idea how much energy it would take to do that. I tried doing some back of the napkins calculations, and it was astounding.The entire northern hemisphere would have been practically glowing in infrared from the heat (energy) transfer.
The only way it works, is if you don't understand thermodynamics at all.
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