Posted on 06/16/2024 9:32:42 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
he edge of Greenland’s ice sheet looked like a big lick of sludgy white frosting spilling over a rise of billion-year-old brown rock. Inside the Twin Otter’s cabin, there were five of us: two pilots, a scientist, an engineer, and me. Farther north, we would have needed another seat for a rifle-armed guard. Here, we were told to just look around for polar-bear tracks on our descent. We had taken off from Greenland’s west coast and soon passed over the ice sheet’s lip. Viewed from directly above, the first 10 miles of ice looked wrinkled, like elephant skin. Its folds and creases appeared to be lit blue from within.
We landed 80 miles into the interior with a swervy skid. Our engineer, a burly Frenchman named Nicolas Bayou, jerked the door open, and an unearthly cold ripped through the cabin. The ice was smoother here. The May sunlight radiated off it like a pure-white aurora. We knew that there were no large crevasses near the landing site. This was a NASA mission. We had orbital reconnaissance. Still, our safety officer had warned us that we could “pop down” into a hidden crack in the ice if we ventured too far from the plane. Bayou appointed himself our Neil Armstrong. He unfolded the ladder, stepped gingerly down its rungs, and set foot on the surface.
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“I’ve read about “climate scientists” seriously proposing that we set off nukes to trigger a mild nuclear winter effect, sending enough dust into the upper atmosphere to partially block the sun’s light for several years. That, is insane”
Better off to have leaded gasoline for 3 months a year.
A Twin Otter will carry pilot, co-pilot and two others along with a canoe after some seats are removed.
Here’s my plan if and when it happens. MOVE!
Use this, which another FReeper has shown, before.
12ft.io can bypass some paywalls. So can Archive.org.
Do these hysterics ever wonder how Greenland got its name?
Build dykes. It’ll be employment for men with strong backs. The Dutch do it.
Vote Democrat?
I feel so sorry for the Obamas with their two ocean front 😢 mansions.
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As far as I can figure out from this mind number drivel, some crazy Turk came up with the “plan” below to avert the catastrophic disaster of melting ice:
The morning after my visit, Tulaczyk wrote to say that his research group preferred to describe his plan as an “ice preservation” scheme, rather than anything that smacks of geo-engineering. Manipulating the flow of nation-size glaciers certainly qualifies as geo-engineering. But Tulaczyk is right to distinguish it from more dramatic, and truly global, interventions; instead of wrapping the Earth in a layer of aerosols to dim the sun, he merely wants to intervene at the glacier.
His is only one of the preservation schemes that glaciologists are considering. Another team of scientists has suggested that mind-bogglingly large swaths of insulating fabric could be draped on top of vulnerable glaciers to keep them cold. Still another team has proposed that a curtain - made of plastic or some other material - be stretched across the 75-mile-wide zone where Thwaites ( a glacier in Antarctica ) meets the sea, to divert the warm water that is flowing underneath it.
My brother in law’s father lived to be 96 years old, and lived in Mamaroneck on the Connecticut coast the whole time. I asked him if he noticed any change in sea level in the last 90 years. nope.
Dikes. Dykes are in the WNBA.
I’ll believe it when Obunghole moves.
Oh, my, they do think that we are all so stupid, do they not?
One needs look no farther than the the Maldives, 24 atolls that cross the equator (where the rotation of the earth would magnify any sea level rise) and is so very low-lying that the average ground-level elevation is a mere 1.5 meters (4 ft 11 in) above sea level.
If the catastrophic sea level predictions were true, the Maldives would be under water (or nearly so) by now. They are just fine, but don't be surprised if the alarmists mysteriously observe sea level rises there, even though no honest person will see it.
If anyone really believed the hoax, then seashore property on either U.S. Coast would be abandoned or selling for a song or outright condemned.
In the Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, a medieval travel log from around the time of the crusades, he mentions that the ancient city of Sorrento was submerged when the sea rose (Pangloss English edition page 65), though the markets and towers could still be seen from the shore.
Ancient Caesaria, on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, was submerged in 1948.
In both cases people came later and rebuilt them above the tide line, and life went on.
Brandon and ODumbo still have their respective beach houses.
Well, you can give the dykes jobs building dikes. Dick Van Dyke is too old.
Yes, that’s the crazy thing. If the sea level rises or the land subsides, people move a bit inland and rebuild. We cope.
I predict there will be numerous terrorist attacks in the US before either of Obama’s waterfront mansions are flooded.
“Dredge the oceans to make them deeper???”
One of our local rivers, which I’ve frequented since I was a kid floods more than it did then. That is due to silting in; the water has to go somewhere. Since dredging is costly, they only dredge the channels periodically.
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