Posted on 05/24/2024 8:59:10 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The massive "doomsday glacier" known for its rapid destabilization is undergoing a "vigorous ice melt" that scientists say could reshape sea level rise projections.
In a new study, glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine, found that warm, high-pressure ocean water is seeping beneath West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought. The glacier is roughly 80 miles across, the widest on Earth. It packs so much ice that if it were to completely collapse, it could singlehandedly cause global sea levels to rise by more than two feet, according to the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, prompting its moniker as the "Doomsday Glacier."
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“Let’s see... I used to know what a cubit was...”
I have “Himself” on vinyl, along with “I Started Out As A Child” and “My Father Confused Me.”
Great stuff.
I have all those records memorized by heart.
Yeah, thanks. I did bout a half hour of reading to really get a grip on what the situation is; something that used to be what I’d call “Freeper Standard.” It’s an eye=opeing experience to dig into something and find that the claims that supposedly drive a desperate need to Do Something Right NOW are so — vague and nearly groundless.
On the digging front, I’ve gotta admit I’m just a piker. Alamo Girl was one of FR’s best, and it took the Wayback Machine to preserve her work:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120228172234/http://www.alamo-girl.com/index.htm
I think we’d have been FAR MORE effective if FR had been not just a forum for commentary, but a repository for documenting AND CONNECTING the facts and the people that were exposed all along the way.
Others are carrying the torch using newer tools. For example, take a romp through here:
https://www.bigdigenergy.info/home
The Ohio River freezes about once or twice per century. The fact that it hasn’t frozen since the mid 70s is NOT evidence of climate change - the last time before then was 60 years earlier. When it freezes again someday, and it will, what will that say about “climate change”?
What? I don’t see that logic.
It doesn’t freeze “about 1 or 2 times” a century. It (Ohio river water) doesn’t freeze at all anymore and it used to freeze regularly.
You can have your own opinions you can’t have your own version of facts.
In fact from 1874 to 1964 the Ohio river at Cincinnati had ice 60 of the 90 winters. From light freezing to solid.
The Ohio River gets ZERO ice anymore. I can’t recall seeing ice , even as much as enough to cool your Coke in about 30 years.
Finally my wife and I went on vacation to Tunica probably 20 years ago, they have a steam boat Museum and it has a large diagram chart showing all the known steamboat wrecks. There are numerous wrecks caused by ice floes in the Mississippi as far south as MEMPHIS and even farther.
Undoubtedly the climate cools and warms and has since the dinosaurs so I’m lost to see what point you are trying to make in your last sentence. We are clearly in a warming phase so I doubt we will see it freeze again in our lifetime.
I'm ambivalent about FR opening up the interface to more modern tools because of the security risk. And with such a broad base of subjects being covered, I think FR could become to heavy.
Nothing prevents someone from providing those extra analysis tools on a private webpage as long as they meet humblegunner text of not using FR to boost their own business.
That fact is that guys like Victor Hansen, Alamo Girl and many others have benefited from the posting of their analysis here on a regular basis. And this is a beautiful thing because FR provides a great audience of like-minded patriots and experts across many professions.
Zackly.
That’s right. A volume of water will expand when it freezes and contract to its original volume as it melts. It’s why frozen glass bottles of Coke, Pepsi, and other carbonated beverages (for example) break. The water in it freezes into ice and expands as it does so, breaking the glass (because it cannot contain the ice in its new volume).
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