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 ...
Be careful what you wish for. That will create millions of refugees that will need housing. President Malaria Obama will sign an EO mandating that all Americans be required to take in these refugees, and provide food and housing for them.
The average temperature in Antarctica is around -30 degrees Fahrenheit, what kind of ice is it that melts at 60 degrees BELOW freezing?
Let me see. The ice is being melted by “warm sea water” circulating under it. Which implies that this is ice that is floating on liquid, and which volume ALREADY contributes all that it ever will to the depth of the sea. The ONLY ice that will contribute to “sea level rise” is ice that is CURRENTLY ON LAND.
See reference to some old Greek guy and his bathtub.
Anatrtica, the new GREENLAND, and just think ? The left and the environmentalists wackos propaganda, every thing GREEN
Polar shifting, sun spots, under ground vocanos.
Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-14/record-coverage-of-antarctic-sea-ice/5742668
Who remembers their grade school science? melting ice does not raise the water level. It is the presence of ice that displaces the water.
And last year cameras showed more ice than anyone knew was there.
Ok the sea levels have been rising for what...20-30 years now? At the rate that keeps being mentioned the inlet close to me would be flooding over the side walls. It isn’t. High and low tide are just about where I remember them for my 45 years of existence so far. Even the jetty rocks look the same as they always have.
Not buying the melting ice=rising seas thing one bit.
There are also socialists who believe that America’s productivity and standard of living are too high compared to the rest of the world (even Europe isn’t entirely air conditioned and their showers use hose attachments), driving in our own large sized vehicles (dependent on our ability to pay gasoline prices, that are lower than Europe’s high taxed fuel) wherever we want to go.
We “needed” to be taken down a couple of pegs and pay Marxist redistributive fines to the rest of the world for ‘using too much of the world’s resources’.
I believe the following two elementary observations are undisputed facts:
1. When ice melts, its volume contracts. (middle school grade physics)
2. The amount of ice below sea level is vastly greater than the amount above.
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Therefore, .... draw your own conclusions.
If the ice did not melt the river of brine that emanates from that continent would not be impelled to make it's way into the rivers of the ocean keeping the earth cooled.
In other words, without some melting we would easily turn into Mars.
Geesh.
http://climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/antarctic-winter-sea-ice-extent-sets-new-record-2014
It ain't going to happen because the Santa Barbara town council was shamed into cancelling the project to paint a global warming high water line through the town.
"If you paint it, water will come", and since it's not being painted, ...
Someone should ask Congressman Hank Johnson if all that ice melt rushing from the Southern Hemisphere into the Northern Hemisphere will cause the Earth to flip over!
Bullshiite! I am so sick of this nonsense.
Marxist reparations.
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