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West Antarctic Ice Sheet's Collapse Triggers Sea Level Warning (15 foot rise)
NBC News ^ | 5/12/14 | Alan Boyle

Posted on 05/12/2014 4:46:14 PM PDT by Libloather

Two teams of scientists say the long-feared collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun, kicking off what they say will be a centuries-long, "unstoppable" process that could raise sea levels by as much as 15 feet.

"There's been a lot of speculation about the stability of marine ice sheets, and many scientists suspected that this kind of behavior is under way," Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a news release about one of the studies published Monday. "This study provides a more qualitative idea of the rates at which the collapse could take place."

The findings from Joughin and his colleagues, appearing in the journal Science, indicate that in some places, Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is losing tens of feet, or several meters, of ice elevation every year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; artarctica; buildarkfast; ice; sea; thwaitesglacier; warning; westantarctica
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To: editor-surveyor

Called calving and happens frequently.


61 posted on 05/12/2014 6:11:05 PM PDT by mcshot (..."And this too shall end.")
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To: Libloather
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
62 posted on 05/12/2014 6:15:35 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: SgtBob
I'm more partial to our Tennessee remedy for ever-thang:

It's even a remedy for Al Gore.

63 posted on 05/12/2014 6:17:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
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To: mountainlion

Is this floating ice? If it is, has anyone heard of displacement? Or are they not teaching basic scientific principles in college anymore?


64 posted on 05/12/2014 6:27:45 PM PDT by D Rider (Don't give sharp objects to small children)
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To: Vermont Lt

But the Antarctic ice is thickening on land, which means that water is actually being removed from the oceans to do that.


65 posted on 05/12/2014 6:36:42 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Gil4

There is no melting happening. The thickening is due to the continual cooling there, with increasing precipitation.

There is no “science” involved, unless you consider propaganda to be science. When the increasing ice gets heavy enough to slide toward the ocean, it evens up the balance sheet.
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66 posted on 05/12/2014 6:42:14 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: KC Burke

That only happens because more ice is being added to the sheet. When it breaks off the ocean gets its lost water back.


67 posted on 05/12/2014 6:44:04 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

No, that comes from the atmosphere. It’s not a wick.


68 posted on 05/12/2014 7:01:28 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: mountainlion

I don’t think human industry is causing the volcanos under the ice sheets ...


69 posted on 05/12/2014 7:03:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Libloather
How high's the water, Mama?
70 posted on 05/12/2014 7:11:09 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: editor-surveyor
Now Jack is the assertion that ice takes up less space than water hard, statistical science or just consensus? Consensus is all that matters. Science and logic be damned.
71 posted on 05/12/2014 7:22:40 PM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: editor-surveyor

“Ice sheets collapse only when they become too massive to remain attached to land.”

Have you considered the possibility that ice could cause the Antarctic to capsize?

If Guam could capsize, .......

You are aware that a real, live CongressCritter authored the Guam Capsize Theory, aren’t you?

What more authoritative source could be imagined?


72 posted on 05/12/2014 8:20:56 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: GladesGuru

Legislated science!


73 posted on 05/12/2014 8:23:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: cashless

Only to the extent that it is addressed to you.


74 posted on 05/12/2014 8:24:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Vermont Lt

Where do you think the atmosphere gets its water?

From another dimension?


75 posted on 05/12/2014 8:26:00 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Libloather

My kingdom for an Ark.


76 posted on 05/12/2014 8:26:23 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: cashless

Disregard my last comment; I clicked on the wrong comment on my ping page :0)


77 posted on 05/12/2014 8:28:01 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If inland water that has been frozen migrates to the ocean or to ice that is floating on the ocean, then it could lift the ocean.

Ice shelves are already floating, however.

Just about an hour ago I added four ice cubes to my glass of bourbon. They melted and my glass didn't over flow.

Imagine that!

78 posted on 05/12/2014 8:30:21 PM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: seowulf
From the article: The loss of ice that is floating on the seas surrounding the continent would not contribute significantly to sea level rise.

The truth of the matter is that ice floating on the sea would not contribute AT ALL to sea level rise. If they can't be honest about such an insignificant statement, then how can they be trusted with those that really matter?

79 posted on 05/12/2014 8:36:51 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Hoodat

bump


80 posted on 05/12/2014 8:37:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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