It's ok. We're ready.
Posted on 05/12/2014 5:03:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Two forthcoming reports on the western Antarctic ice sheet confirm previous fears that the ice's melt will increase ocean levels by as much as 13 feet within the next few centuries. They also suggest that the process has already begun — and is likely not reversible.
The New York Times reports that both papers — one by NASA scientists, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, and one by University of Washington scientists to appear in Science — find that the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of naturally-occurring warm water welling up from deep in the ocean.
None of this is surprising to those paying attention to the state of the West Antarctic, per the Times, which reports that the late Dr. John H. Mercer predicted the unstoppable melt back in 1978:
The basic problem is that much of the West Antarctic ice sheet sits below sea level in a kind of bowl-shaped depression [in] the earth. As Dr. Mercer outlined in 1978, once the part of the ice sheet sitting on the rim of the bowl melts and the ice retreats into deeper water, it becomes unstable and highly vulnerable to further melting.
Now, scientists are saying that the situation in the Antarctic has passed a crucial threshold. "There's no stabilizing mechanism," said Dr. Ian Joughin, lead author of the paper slated to appear in Science. Even if if the melt rate was too slow, it would be "too little, too late to stabilize the ice sheet," he adds. And NASA's Thomas P. Wagner said "this is really happening. There's nothing to stop it now."
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The first Hitler proved telling a lie often enough and the idiot masses believe it it true.
Part 2.
It's ok. We're ready.
Here’s hoping al isn’t in Colorado..*-o
Mid-May storm buries Colorado flower beds under 3 feet of snow
http://news.yahoo.com/tornado-hits-nebraska-town-causing-damage-one-injury-032637178—finance.html
Gee, I thought His Wonness took care of that.
there's prolly more than a little truth in that statement
Much like the cubes melting in a glass of water. This is the analogy I use to educate the ignorant. Watch the melting cubes and see if the glass overflows.
Even if ALL the ice sitting in the water melts, the water level won’t rise...
Also, the article admits that much of the ice sheet sits *below sea level* in a depression in the earth. The melt ice below sea level can't contribute, since it will fill the depression it already occupies.
They are desperate because they know no one is listening to them. Not even their own morons are much concerned with warming, I mean change, I mean disruption.
So they have to shriek. This is shrieking.
The experiment:
1. Place some ice cubes in a glass tumbler.
2. Cover the ice cubes with water almost to the top of the tumbler.
3. Mark the water level with electrician's or duct tape.
4. Set tumbler full of ice and water on the middle of a table in a warm room.
5. Allow the ice to melt and note the new water level.
6. Report back.
7. Spread the word!
How much will that screw up NYC?
The “debunking” will follow right behind..... can’t wait to read that.
“”fears that the ice’s melt will increase ocean levels by as much as 13 feet within the next few centuries.””
I’ll be dead by then so I will tell my kin to put my casket up high.
Let’s stand him on his head.
>>If there is no way to stop it now, then the only thing to do is sell your beach front properties and move inland and build beach condos in expectation of future profits...
That’s why the 1% wants the middle class dead. We can’t afford the beach front stuff, so we live a couple miles inland. Now they want our property for the future beach front and we’re already there. </sarc>
I’m still screwed in West Texas!
Invest now in beachfront property ... in Denver!
winter is just starting down there ,so it should freeze up real good or will it all melt
Now it’s morning.
Look look, the pyramid is opening up...
Which one?
South Pole: Green is ice present in 2013, which was not present in 1992. Red shows the opposite.
How much of California will this get rid of?
Bye bye New Orleans...
Florida won’t be much of a loss either.
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