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Latest warmist doomsday fantasy: Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica will 'fall apart overnight' and raise sea levels by ten feet
Americanthinker.com ^ | 1/3/2022 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/03/2022 10:47:34 AM PST by rktman

Some people love to be scared. Mary Shelley knew that when she wrote Frankenstein, and genres of fiction and film exist mining that desire for innocent fun and profit. But when politics enters the fray and fears are stoked to scare people into accepting costly and harmful policies, it is important to push back.

Two articles from last week illustrate the panic-mongering and the responsible citation of fact.

Breitbart highlights a prophet of doom from Rolling Stone magazine, home of the University of Virginia rape hoax story:

The massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica could "fall apart overnight" and raise sea levels by 10 feet, declares an article Thursday in Rolling Stone magazine.

The essay by Jeff Goodell, titled "'The Fuse Has Been Blown,' and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All," states that cracks and fissures in the Thwaites eastern ice shelf suggest the Florida-sized ice mass "could fracture like a shattered car window in as little as five years."

The West Antarctic ice sheet "is one of the most important tipping points in the Earth's climate system," Goodell asserts. "If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antarctic; artarctica; gangreen; thwaitesglacier
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To: rktman

After watching the number of deaths the globalists have inflicted via Covid, I wouldn’t rule out their exploding a nuclear device on a fault line in the glacier.


21 posted on 01/03/2022 11:02:51 AM PST by sopo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL! ‘cept our house and maybe your house.


22 posted on 01/03/2022 11:03:27 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

Did Al Gore recently visit Antarctica?


23 posted on 01/03/2022 11:05:27 AM PST by randita
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To: Political Junkie Too

Without some explanation, your posted picture is useless and just a waste of bandwidth.


24 posted on 01/03/2022 11:05:29 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: rktman

Well, my house is 12 feet above sea level, so I’m safe...............


25 posted on 01/03/2022 11:05:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Mouton

The ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland both rest on land.


26 posted on 01/03/2022 11:06:08 AM PST by GingisK
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To: rktman

I wonder if the Kerry’s, Gore’s, Obama’s, Clinton’s, and other distinguished democrats will be selling their beach front homes.


27 posted on 01/03/2022 11:07:10 AM PST by Swirl
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To: GingisK

Be really cool to see what’s under all that ice, IMO.


28 posted on 01/03/2022 11:08:01 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: rktman

Hillbillies don’t care.


29 posted on 01/03/2022 11:08:41 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: randita

Apparently he took a good dose of CONvid down there.


30 posted on 01/03/2022 11:09:29 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Salamander

They need to learn to use some simple math to calculate VOLUME of a glacier, spread our over the entire ocean.


31 posted on 01/03/2022 11:10:56 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: GingisK
True . . . and additionally, the weight over these land masses have depressed both so that much of it is below sea level, making it a perfect place to collect runoff in the unlikely event that both melt simultaneously.

However, said event is unlikely to happen given that it is summer in Antarctica when it is winter in Greenland and vice versa.

32 posted on 01/03/2022 11:12:15 AM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Artic sea ice largest expansion in 18 years.


33 posted on 01/03/2022 11:14:03 AM PST by AU72
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly...I’ll wait for those folks to sell their homes.


34 posted on 01/03/2022 11:14:28 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: rktman

Description
Sandhills are an inland habitat type characterized by rolling hills capped by deep coarse sands. They are wedged between the Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of North and South Carolina. Scientists believe sandhills were formed by ancient oceans that rose and then receded in response to melting and freezing of polar ice caps. Beaches formed wherever the water met the land. Each time a beach formed, a sandhill was left behind when the ocean receded.

https://archive-srel.uga.edu/outreach/factsheet/sandhills.html#:~:text=Sandhills%20are%20an%20inland%20habitat%20type%20characterized%20by,to%20melting%20and%20freezing%20of%20polar%20ice%20caps.

That’s one big area. If you took a scoop of dirt most anywhere south of the sand hills you can see small seashells in it.

Here’s a map;

https://cdn.onlyinyourstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/carolina-sandhills-in-south-carolina-700x366.jpg

Everything in the US directly south of there was underwater before the major ice age melt. Hmmm.


35 posted on 01/03/2022 11:16:23 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: rktman

It’s summer down there, but the beaches are less than optimal.


36 posted on 01/03/2022 11:19:19 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: rktman

They’ve been 100 percent wrong on the long range. Now they’re going for the short range…why?


37 posted on 01/03/2022 11:20:55 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I forgot to add that if I didn’t live in this area south of the sand hills, I probably wouldn’t know about them. Definitely doesn’t fit the seas are rising/sky is falling narrative.


38 posted on 01/03/2022 11:22:07 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: the_Watchman
Without some explanation, your posted picture is useless and just a waste of bandwidth.

You didn't see that dumb mivie, it seems.

39 posted on 01/03/2022 11:22:28 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Levy78

PSSST!

I’ve got a hot tip on a special REIT for beachfront property near Rachel, NV.
I can get you in for a small finder’s fee.


40 posted on 01/03/2022 11:22:40 AM PST by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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