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West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, causing significant sea level rise, experts warn
foxnews.com ^ | 3/31/2016 | unknown

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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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. source
So even if the temperature at Antarctica went up by 30 degrees celcius - the average temperature would still be 19 degrees below freezing.
41 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?)
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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.


42 posted on 03/31/2016 9:06:55 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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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!!!!!!!


43 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)
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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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44 posted on 03/31/2016 9:07:54 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: dfwgator
And the Detroit Lions COULD win the Super Bowl.

Now don't be silly!

45 posted on 03/31/2016 9:07:56 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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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.


46 posted on 03/31/2016 9:08:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: rktman
2500...AD?

Dude..I can't afford to wait.


47 posted on 03/31/2016 9:08:07 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Enterprise

D’oh!


48 posted on 03/31/2016 9:08:36 AM PDT by dasboot
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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.


49 posted on 03/31/2016 9:09:20 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Farmer Dean
I’m sitting here at elevation 1135,trying to be concerned.

I'm sitting at 30 ft and I'm not concerned.

50 posted on 03/31/2016 9:09:36 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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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.


51 posted on 03/31/2016 9:10:02 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: rktman; All

“Then again, it may not, we just don’t know.”


52 posted on 03/31/2016 9:10:06 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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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.

53 posted on 03/31/2016 9:10:09 AM PDT by Plexi
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To: Sgt_Schultze

True, but ocean water freezes at 28F LOL


54 posted on 03/31/2016 9:10:15 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: dasboot

LOL!!


55 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)
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To: Mouton
"what accounts for the additional displacement?"

Rosie O'Donnell.

56 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)
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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.


57 posted on 03/31/2016 9:12:31 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: dfwgator

Only if they face the Buffalo Bills.


58 posted on 03/31/2016 9:12:48 AM PDT by fhayek
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To: hal ogen
Not the first time they have sold their souls for grant money and it will not be the last.
59 posted on 03/31/2016 9:13:16 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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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.


60 posted on 03/31/2016 9:14:36 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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