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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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61 posted on 03/31/2016 9:17:10 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

> The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is, in places, over 2000 m thick, with the geological floor well below sea level. [ http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/west-antarctic-ice-sheet/ ]

For those who have poor reading skills, that means “in places” (turns out, it’s “most of”) the WAIS is already below sealevel; if it melts, in entire, which no actual scientist claims will happen, or had already happened during the previous interglacial, the sealevel rise would be — worst case, which appears to be a gross exaggeration — 3.3 meters.


62 posted on 03/31/2016 9:20:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: dfwgator

Monkeys could fly from my butt.

UF could be competitive in a bowl game...


63 posted on 03/31/2016 9:21:34 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: SubMareener

One of the main objections to your analysis would be that your key paragraph-— the one beginning with the words “The constellation Virgo, the Virgin, has always been identified...”-— is bunk.


64 posted on 03/31/2016 9:21:51 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Plexi

You are right...

That is a lot of extra water from one tiny already submerged ice shelf....(already submerged means it doesn;t contribute mroe when melted)


65 posted on 03/31/2016 9:21:59 AM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: dfwgator

And Danica Patrick could win a NASCAR race.


66 posted on 03/31/2016 9:22:16 AM PDT by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: rktman

Well that does it then; I’m moving off the planet.


67 posted on 03/31/2016 9:25:10 AM PDT by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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To: dfwgator

And the Detroit Lions COULD win the Super Bowl.
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Now that is REALLY unlikely.


68 posted on 03/31/2016 9:25:16 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: rktman

St Louis is 600+ feet above sea level. I’m not worried.


69 posted on 03/31/2016 9:26:16 AM PDT by steve8714 (Why is Romney pushing me to Trump?)
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To: IrishBrigade

Hey now, I’m giving McElwain another year.


70 posted on 03/31/2016 9:27:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rktman
Or it could not.....


71 posted on 03/31/2016 9:27:53 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: All

NEWS FLASH!!!!!

ISIS is today planning to go the western Antartic and jump up and down on the icepack to bring flooding to the world!!!!!


72 posted on 03/31/2016 9:32:25 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: rktman

I wonder which of the undersea volcanos they discovered recently is getting more active.


73 posted on 03/31/2016 9:32:37 AM PDT by Ingtar (64.7% del allocated. Trump 61.0%, Cruz 37.7% of required for nomination 3/23)
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To: rktman
Bullstuffing.

Why back when, at a time real science still existed, I recall reading that IF 100% of all glacial ice were to melt, and all land masses were flat, the rise in global sea levels would cover the land in something on the order of 2 inches of water.

A rise of 2,500 feet isn't possible.

74 posted on 03/31/2016 9:34:03 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: rktman

My preserved head in a jar is going to be very concerned.


75 posted on 03/31/2016 9:34:36 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: dfwgator

Before 2500?....................maybe.....................


76 posted on 03/31/2016 9:42:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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77 posted on 03/31/2016 9:43:46 AM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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The Antarctic is land with ice and snow atop it as well as ice extending out from shore. Where is the ice on land going to collapse into and what immeasurably tremendous force is going to make it move horizontally for hundreds of miles past the ice over the water?

If not the ice over land, but the water, the ice weight and volume is already displacing the water not frozen reflected throughout the worlds ocean levels.


78 posted on 03/31/2016 9:49:15 AM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: GraceG
These alarmists are NUTS!

Or.. they think we're stupid.

By the way.. your math is right on.

79 posted on 03/31/2016 9:50:17 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: rktman

http://www.livescience.com/24168-glacier-volume-sea-level-rise.html

17” rise if every glacier on earth completely melted.


80 posted on 03/31/2016 9:51:00 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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