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West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, causing significant sea level rise, experts warn
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| 3/31/2016
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Posted on 03/31/2016 8:51:14 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
The average high temperature for the year in Antarctica is about -49 degrees F, while the average low temperature for the continent is about -56 degrees F.
sourceSo even if the temperature at Antarctica went up by 30 degrees celcius - the average temperature would still be 19 degrees
below freezing.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:06:38 AM PDT
by
Sgt_Schultze
(If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
To: rktman
Ah, this is an every 5 to 7 years hand wringing topic...
Realize though that in this type of climate regime or even a bit warmer and Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula become vegetated savannah environments. The basin and range provinces of the American west have large lakes with forested shores in the intermountain areas.
Greenland becomes resettleable, enormous swaths of the northern climes become amenable to seasonal agriculture.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:06:55 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: rktman
Oh my gosh, I’ll be well over 400 years old by then.
I can’t retire on the beach with sea levels up by 49 feet!
We’ve got to do something! Buy a Prius!!! NOW!!!!!!!
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:07:31 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: rktman
Even worse! Without that ice weighing down the Western Antarctic, the Eastern Antarctic my fall into the ocean, tipping the Continent, drowning all the penguins!
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To: dfwgator
And the Detroit Lions COULD win the Super Bowl. Now don't be silly!
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:07:56 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: rktman
whatever happened to the law of conservation of mass? It doesn’t apply for Global Warming hacks?
your water glass with some ice cubes floating in it has no more water than the same glass with the ice all melted.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:08:00 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: rktman
2500...AD?
Dude..I can't afford to wait.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:08:07 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Enterprise
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:08:36 AM PDT
by
dasboot
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
These “scientists” are political shills who have sold their souls for globull warming money through grants. They are co-opted fools.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:09:20 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
To: Farmer Dean
Im sitting here at elevation 1135,trying to be concerned. I'm sitting at 30 ft and I'm not concerned.
To: lurk
To get a 1 ft sea level rise requires that ~34 ft of above sea level ice melt off of all of Greenland and Antarctica.
So they are predicting 1666 ft of ice melt over the next 500 years. That is 3.3 ft per year.
Given that the average summertime temp of Antarctica is about 50 degrees below freezing, I’d say these folks a completely full of rat crap.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:10:02 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: rktman; All
“Then again, it may not, we just don’t know.”
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:10:06 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: GraceG
360,000,000,000 Meters square * 15 meters = 5,400,000,000,000 I think you're off by three orders of magnitude. One square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:10:09 AM PDT
by
Plexi
To: Sgt_Schultze
True, but ocean water freezes at 28F LOL
To: dasboot
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:10:25 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: Mouton
"what accounts for the additional displacement?" Rosie O'Donnell.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:12:10 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: nascarnation
Well this appears to contradict the miracle fix brought on with the inauguration of Caliph Baraq....
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Give the guy credit, he did delay it by 500 years.
To: dfwgator
Only if they face the Buffalo Bills.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:12:48 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: hal ogen
Not the first time they have sold their souls for grant money and it will not be the last.
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posted on
03/31/2016 9:13:16 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Cicero
Or all the penguins might dive off the Antarctic ice sheet at once, causing a tsunami to wipe out Brazil.
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Not to mention causing Guam to tip over.
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