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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
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To: rktman
When the glaciers melted, sea levels rose 400 feet.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:23:04 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
To: rktman
and raise sea levels by 10 feet
No. Here's the REAL math (please excuse the constricted exp. notation) -
1 km2 = 1,000,000 m2
Thwaites Glacier area = 192,000 km2 = 192 x 10 9 m2 (about the size of Florida)
AVERAGE thickness = 500 m (about 1600 feet) (the glacier tapers, being thickest in the middle)
so Volume = 96 x 10 12 m3 of ice
But Area of World's Oceans = 360 x 10 6 km2 = 360 x 10 12 m2
So sea-level rise = 96/360 = 0.27 m (about 11 inches)
...and that's only if the ENTIRE glacier collapses at once, which is highly unlikely
so then suppose half of it collapes ... that's still less than 5" of sea rise, which is well within the normal tidal/storm surge variances ... 10 feet is nonsense
IOW, more needless Media panic!
To: rktman
I hear its snowing in the middle east.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:31:01 AM PST
by
Revel
To: Vigilanteman
I've run the computations related to those ice sheets melting, including compensation for the "land bowels" which hold the ice. The ocean could indeed rise 10-12 feet. Given the shorelines around the world, water would not penetrate too far inland. There are a few places that would be submerged. Roof tops and telephone poles would still be visible.
If those sheets completely melted, the world would actually remain mostly intact.
But the truth the alarmists won't utter is that those big sheets aren't melting away. They mostly shift around from place to place.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:32:16 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: Jim Noble
When the glaciers melted, sea levels rose 400 feet
they also took 2000 years to melt ... the Ice Ages didn't just end suddenly
To: rktman
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.That's just Leftist FAKENEWS!!!
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder claims "it could lead to even more sea-level rise, up to 10 feet, if it draws the surrounding glaciers with it." [Emphasis added]
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:38:13 AM PST
by
Carl Vehse
(A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
To: rktman
and yet, dint i just read the polar ice is thickest on record or something?
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:42:12 AM PST
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Sacajaweau
“Mother Nature’s In Charge; We’re Just Along For The Ride.” — Me, 1996.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:42:47 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
Well, my house is 12 feet above sea level, so Iām safe............... I have an inflatable boat with oars. The way sea levels are rising, I have a few hundred years time to inflate it. Local news was dwelling on a panic story about bay waters at hide tide spilling over a sidewalk at the wharf in San Francisco. Thirty years ago it was doing the same thing at the same spot where I would eat my lunch across from where I worked. No change in water levels at all over decades.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:42:52 AM PST
by
roadcat
To: Chode
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:43:52 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? š)
To: rktman
There is an equal chance that a meteorite will fall on Goodell’s head and destroy his brain. Not that anyone would notice.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:47:27 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: rktman
Sadly my house is 90 metres (300 feet) above sea level, so even this wont get me near the beach.
To: Red Badger
I’m 823 feet above sea level so I was able to buy the land for my Tennessee Possum Holler International Sea port pretty cheap.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:52:12 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: canuck_conservative
Yes, you’re right on that estimate of sea level rise.
There was a thread about this several weeks ago. It turns out it’s vulcanism under the ice sheet, not global warming, that’s the likely culprit here.
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:55:14 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: Mr. K
I was kind of looking forward to mountain top beach property, myself.
:)
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:55:23 AM PST
by
Salamander
("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
To: GingisK
If they rest over land, how is it they are breaking free?
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posted on
01/03/2022 11:57:14 AM PST
by
Mouton
(The enemy of the people is the media )
To: DannyTN
I’m glad I paid off my mortgage! ................................
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posted on
01/03/2022 12:09:57 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Mouton
There are rings of ice floating along the shoreline. Those are pretty small compared to the ice all across the continent.
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posted on
01/03/2022 12:12:33 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: rktman
Yeah because Jeff Goodell has a masters of fine arts which qualifies him eminently to speak with authority on the subject of antarctic geology and climatology.
To: carriage_hill
My first remembrance of the Climate Fiasco was when Gore first began...Hillary stepped to the mike and said this is to induce children to be active in politics. They did achieve what they set out to do...brainwash millions of younguns’ and they continue with their false narratives.
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