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The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will..
WaPo ^ | Jan. 22, 2015 | Chris Mooney

Posted on 01/24/2015 7:07:43 AM PST by PROCON

The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country. Here’s how the Earth will get its revenge.

Last year, we learned what is probably the worst global warming news yet — that we may have irrevocably destabilized the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica, which contains the equivalent of nearly 11 feet of sea level rise. The rate of West Antarctic ice loss has been ominously increasing, and there are fears that if too much goes, the slow and long-term process of ice sheet disintegration could accelerate.

Humans have a hard time conceiving of the incredible scale of an ice sheet, so the consequences of such a change can be lost upon us. But in a new paper in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers — Forensic Engineering, researchers Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., and John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. – summarize what we now know about West Antarctica. That includes a finding that may serve as a wake-up call for Americans in particular.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; climatedisruption; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; manbearpig; scam; weather
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The United States will actually get a lot more sea level rise than many other parts of the world — possibly over 14 feet. Call it geophysical karma

As the "evidence" for man-made globalwarming fades, these cultist loons get even loonier.

1 posted on 01/24/2015 7:07:43 AM PST by PROCON
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping


2 posted on 01/24/2015 7:08:38 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%---unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON

The writer is “out there.”


3 posted on 01/24/2015 7:13:23 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: PROCON
And, in another update, Chicken Little is reporting that the sky is falling...

Oh my...we've survived 6+ years of an incompetent mixed-race, race-baiting buffoon in the people's house, what's to worry about a rising tide and a falling sky?!?

4 posted on 01/24/2015 7:13:27 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: PROCON

We can attribute acts of revenge to the earth but heaven forbid we attribute natural disasters to God.


5 posted on 01/24/2015 7:13:38 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: PROCON

According to Al Gore’s predictions 15 years ago, half the eastern seaboard should already be under water. It isn’t.


6 posted on 01/24/2015 7:13:43 AM PST by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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we may have irrevocably destabilized the massive ice sheet of West Antarctica, which contains the equivalent of nearly 11 feet of sea level rise.

I guess they missed this gem....

Antarctic ice thicker than thought, drone submarine finds ... rt.com/news/208503-antarctica-thicker-sea-ice/

Nov 25, 2014 - A new type of 3D mapping revealed Antarctic sea ice could be much thicker than previously estimated, shows a study done with the help of a submarine drone.... Antarctic ice thicker than thought, drone submarine finds scientists.trendolizer.com/.../antarctic-ice-thicker-than-thought-drone-sub...

“We suggest that thick ice in the near-coastal and interior pack may be under-represented in existing in situ assessments of Antarctic sea ice and hence, ...

Robotic Submarine Finds Antarctic Ice Is Thicker than We ... gizmodo.com/this-robotic-submarine-found-that-arctic-ice-is-th...

Nov 25, 2014 - ... Robotic Submarine Finds Antarctic Ice Is Thicker than We Thought. 3.

7 posted on 01/24/2015 7:14:06 AM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: PROCON

The lunacy (L) is proportional to the desperation (D) in a non-linear fashion. In mathematical terms

L = D**2


8 posted on 01/24/2015 7:14:32 AM PST by CheneyClone
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To: PROCON

this global warming hoax is like a religion. Take an ice cube and put it in a glass of water. Take a magic marker and mark the level of the water. Let the Ice Burg (cube) melt them mark the water level. Absolutely no change.
The Senate of the United States voted that it believes in “climate Change” 99-1. Me too. The climate this morning was 34 degrees and cloudy. Now its 41 and sunny. Absolute change.
What this is about ti to take your money and give it others that didn’t earn it.


9 posted on 01/24/2015 7:15:32 AM PST by iowacornman (Romney is the father of government health care.)
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To: PROCON

10 posted on 01/24/2015 7:15:46 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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The U.S. has caused more global warming than any other country.

Woo hoo! We're number one! We're number one! In your face, rest of the world!

11 posted on 01/24/2015 7:16:14 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: spokeshave

But, but, here we have the brightest of the brightest “looking ahead!” What could possibly go wrong??


12 posted on 01/24/2015 7:16:41 AM PST by jennings2004 ("What difference, at this point, does it make!"!)
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To: spokeshave

Sea ice contributes nothing whatsoever to sea level.


13 posted on 01/24/2015 7:17:20 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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"researchers Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., and John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn."

OK .. a guy named SCAM from a data center and a guy named Abraham from a saint ... have teamed up to tell us we are all doomed

Am I the ONLY conspiratorial nut case ?

14 posted on 01/24/2015 7:17:46 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: PROCON

Imagine if we based our space program on the same settled science of may and can? Houston this is apollo, we are a liitle nervous about this course that “may” get us back to earth.


15 posted on 01/24/2015 7:18:24 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: PROCON

Even at the compost forums the AGW cultists are getting shouted down easily.

Their cause jumped the shark some time ago.


16 posted on 01/24/2015 7:18:30 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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researchers Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center

Scambos, eh? Pretty appropriate name for a guy whose gets paid to produce snow jobs.

As far as I'm concerned, all the researchers are Scambos.

They're motto should be Je Suis Scambo.

17 posted on 01/24/2015 7:18:49 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: PROCON

I was thinking about all that there “Global Warming” when I was scraping the frost off my car here in North Texas.


18 posted on 01/24/2015 7:19:05 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: PROCON

Chrissy. You really need to lighten up. You take your job as a gossip writer way too seriously. They’ll be calling you Mooney the loony if you don’t give this stuff a rest.


19 posted on 01/24/2015 7:19:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When the hell do I get MY white privilege? I'm tired of busting my @$$ for a living.)
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To: PROCON

Islam and Socialism could save us!/s


20 posted on 01/24/2015 7:20:14 AM PST by Dallas59
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