Posted on 03/31/2016 8:51:14 AM PDT by rktman
Scientists are warning that the West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, potentially causing sea levels to rise more than 49 feet by 2500.
The study published in the journal Nature this week, cites the impact of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. Collapsing Antarctic ice could cause sea levels to rise more than 3 feet by 2100, say co-authors Rob DeConto, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard, a palaeoclimatologist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
If emissions continue unabated, the scientists warn, atmospheric warming will soon become a “dominant driver” of ice loss, with prolonged ocean warming delaying its recovery for thousands of years.
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I’m sitting here at elevation 1135,trying to be concerned.
Nope,ain’t happening.
Yawn, gimme a grant and I’ll study it ...
If 90 percent of a ice floe is above water now and the remaining frozen part occupies more space in frozen rather than in liquid form what accounts for the additional displacement?
and the Red Wings could miss the playoffs. oh, wait..
The ocean could spring a leak causing all ships and boats to rest on oceanic valleys...
Oh the huge manatees...
And a Canadian Team could win the Stanley Cup.
Not only that, but there is more air in the ice than water ...
Well. . . .think of the upside. 49 feet of water would flood out DC, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle.
The trick will be to have it hit all at once, drowning the rats. . . . (evil grin)
Really. Sounds like someone learned the "new maths" in school where you can "feel" the answers that you want.
Paging Algore
You will be imprisoned if you don’t give your virgin daughter up to be tossed into the vulcano.
Same old huckster’s gambit.
Lemme guess -
Pony up ever increasing taxes to the UN is the antidote.
Probably even the liberals who live along the coastlines will know to step back from the water as it rushes in over the next 500 years.
From Skeptical Science: "Professor Niklas Mörner, who has been studying sea level for a third of a century, says it is physically impossible for sea level to rise at much above its present rate, and he expects 4-8 inches of sea level rise this century, if anything rather below the rate of increase in the last century. In the 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age, sea level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone."
2500? Isn’t it the left that justifies keynsian economics by claiming that “in the long run we’re all dead anyway”
If the average global temperature is 3.6 degrees, I don't think melting ice will be the problem.
More Al Gore CRAP?
2500?
Oh, my God
Oh, my God
Oh, my God
I’m in deep trouble then. I don’t have any daughters.
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