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Posted on 03/17/2015 12:27:53 PM PDT by EagleUSA
A hundred years from now, humans may remember 2014 as the year that we first learned that we may have irreversibly destabilized the great ice sheet of West Antarctica, and thus set in motion more than 10 feet of sea level rise.
Meanwhile, 2015 could be the year of the double whammy — when we learned the same about one gigantic glacier of East Antarctica, which could set in motion roughly the same amount all over again. Northern hemisphere residents and Americans in particular should take note — when the bottom of the world loses vast amounts of ice, those of us living closer to its top get more sea level rise than the rest of the planet....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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You don't, you give out an "I" for idiot.......
Officer, arrest that man. And take his compost pile into custody!
“How do you give out a grade of F minus ?”
It’s called an ‘FU algore’!
Gee wasn’t it about a year ago when a ship full of environmentalist whackos sailed to the Antarctic to see all the melting and their ship was caught in the ice for weeks. It took an international fleet of ice breakers to free their ship. The whackos were so appalled by the carbon emissions spent in their rescue they had to plant hundreds of trees to atone for their carbon sins.
It ‘could’ be the year we discover Unicorns are taking over the world too...
The phrase "The sky is falling!" features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Versions of the story go back more than 25 centuries
Melting ICE.?.... thats Soooo cool..
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"The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country".
Hokum.
Is this the same Antarctica where the ice is growing, or the other one?
Amazing how the world has looked past the fact that hysterical nonsense like this helped kill off millions of people when we banned DDT. They pulled the same crap back then because of supposed thinning of bird egg shells.
Melt season ended about the last week in Feb down there. Been adding ice since then.
Their seasonal “low” this year was one of the highest lows on record.
You and me both FRiend!
Good. Maybe it can flood out New York, Boston, San Francisco, Lof Angeles and Chicago and make the country cleaner.
The article is appallingly misleading. Prof. Martin Siegert, one of the authors said that “The 3.5 metre rise may take several centuries to complete, but now the process has started it is likely irreversible. This is another example of how human-induced climate change could be triggering major changes with knock-on impacts that will be felt globally.” The key fact of “several centuries” appears to be missing from the Chris “Republican War on Science dude” Mooney’s piece. I wonder why.
In the late 1990’s Ken Lay and his team from Enron spent an extraordinary amount of money lobbying both Congress and the White House on the “hazard of C02” its effects on the “environment” etc.
Enron had devised a plan to regulate “Carbon” emissions in-order for them to trade those emissions for a profit.
Al Gore bought this hook line and sinker.
Al Gore invested in the first ever US Exchange dedicated to trading carbon credits. Both Enron and that Exchange failed but Al Gore has never lost sight of the massive money making potential of regulating C02.
It’s a perfect storm.
1. Scare and guilt the public into believing that people are the problem. (it’s a religion)
2. Get the Government to regulate c02 emissions. The first step was achieved when the EPA classified c02 as a pollutant.
3. Create a mechanism to relieve the public’s guilt. Carbon emission trading/offsets. This is the Exchange which can be reconstituted very quickly.
Carbon Trading exchanges have failed in Europe after years and years of attempts.
There are people in the business of promoting the FEAR of “Climate Change”, people that actually believe this crap.
Then there are those that are simply in it for the money.
Seems they can't make up their minds about this.
The article fails to note the likely influence of oceanic volcanic activity.
FR: New Giant Volcano Below Sea Is Largest in the World (Size of New Mexico)
FR: Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
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