Posted on 04/06/2023 7:02:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – Antarctic ice-sheets risk breaking into the sea faster than previously thought in stretches of up to 600 metres a day, speeding up the rise in sea levels, new research indicates.
In a paper published Wednesday in science journal Nature, researchers studied traces left by retreating ice-shelves thousands of years ago on the seabed off Norway.
Global warming due to human-caused carbon emissions is reducing ice, raising warnings that dangerous "tipping points" could be reached, with sudden major melting driving sharp rises in sea level.
"Our study shows that pulses of extremely rapid ice-sheet retreat could occur across flat-bedded areas of Antarctica even under present-day rates of melting," lead author Christine Batchelor of Newcastle University told AFP.
"Whilst our findings cannot tell us when or if an ice-loss tipping point will be reached, they shed new light on which parts of ice sheets are vulnerable to retreat and how fast such retreat could occur."
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Oh no we’re all gonna die again.
The Earth could burst into a burning ball of fire if we don’t raise taxes.
RuhRoh! We better all turn up the AC or else.
“could”, “might”, ...
This is a new low in validity. So bad you can’t even just call it wrong.
So now we only have 5 years left.
Just. let. it. happen. Rush mentioned this years ago: no one dies from warmer temperatures, but a LOT of people die from freezing. A colder planet means starvation. A warmer planet means more water on the surface which should increase atmospheric moisture which leads to longer growing seasons. They’re trying to saying warming is a bad. I say we call their bluff.
Meanwhile, initial reports of mile high glaciers forming in Canada’s Far North have proven true and are advancing south rapidly.
This “study” was scheduled by Nature’s leftist editors to coincide with the big UN propaganda climate report that was released two weeks ago. Seems like they missed the news cycle. Wonder if the article will ne translated into Chinese?
They sit in a room smoking dope while suggesting theories with the opening thesis:
"What if we're like fleas on a basketball?"
Give us a ring when Miami is inundated and the Obamas have to abandon their mansion on the Vineyard.
ice sheets that break up into the sea are ice sheets that are growing and expanding... ice that melts, recedes and there is no “breaking off”.
showing ice cliffs falling into the ocean is an example of ice becoming too large for the structure to hold itself up... a melting ice cube doesn’t break apart...
SCIENCE!
Man-bear-pig will become extinct!
At least hotel maids will approve.
You missed ‘predict’, ‘believe’ and ‘estimate’.
Oh dear. Another “study.” Quick! Give the “study” conductors more money!
Didn’t I just read, recently, that global temperatures have failed to rise for the past nine years?
Ice sheets could grow faster than expected. (See, I am just as fully skilled as highly credentialed PhD’s in using the word “could”.)
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