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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The Earth will get even by causing the general population of the USA to become stupid and elect socialists who will bring down the USA.
The cause of the variable distribution of heat beneath the glacier is thought to be the movement of magma and associated volcanic activity arising from the rifting of the Earth’s crust beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
There isn’t a need to read beyond the first two sentences. The premise and conclusions are complete bullsh!t fantasy.
Perhaps the author should go back and try to explain Al Gore’s fabrication of the sea-level rise pictorial he had in his book that showed sea-level rise and some inconvenient facts about the geography of Cuba.
When a man’s whole belief system through life is falling apart, he will become desperate.
There’s actually relatively little ice on land. (Primarily Antarctica and Greenland) enough to raise sea levels by a couple of feet but certainly not the hundreds the alarmists like to predict.
Sea level has already risen over 1000 feet in the last 20 years. How much more can we take?
The author is an alarmist who does not choose to address solutions. I wonder if he is aggressively pro-nuclear? Or if he wants to erect monumental idols to Algore in every courthouse square, make worship mandatory, and empower a class of all-powerful bureaucrats to enforce mandatory rationing?
Eventually, these loons will urge us all to pull a Jonestown. Just drink the Kool-Aid and die for the sake of Mother Earth.
Interesting name...
Michael Oppenheimer, 1990, The Environmental Defense Fund: “By 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…”(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers…The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.”
April 18, 1990, Denver Post: “Giant sand dunes may turn Plains to desert–huge sand dunes extending east from Colorado’s Front Range may be on the verge of breaking through the thin topsoil, transforming America’s rolling High Plains into a desert, new research suggests. The giant sand dunes discovered by NASA satellite photos are expected to re-emerge over the next 20 t0 50 years, depending on how fast average temperatures rise from the suspected ‘greenhouse effect’ scientists believe.”
Sept 19, 1989, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now.”
June 30, 1989, Associated Press: U.N. OFFICIAL PREDICTS DISASTER, SAYS GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD WIPE SOME NATIONS OFF MAP–entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos,” said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He added that governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect.
I'm still waiting for that ice free Arctic by the year 2009.
Especially when we have to worry about surviving two more years of the former.
Did I hear someone say “The sky is falling”? Yawn
It's not conspiratorial. I think God just has a wicked sense of humor.
Sorry, God, I didn't mean wicked in an evil sort of way, I meant.....whoa!....that lightning strike was close.
No need to thank us for keeping the glaciers at arms length. Well, maybe some thanks would be in order. Have no fear earth, we’re tryin’ to keep you warm. :>}
They’re quoting a guy from a data center that no one has heard of and another guy from a MIAC school that no one outside of Minnesota has heard of. Pretty desperate for “experts”.
They work at the University of St. Thomas. Ironic they should portray us as doubters.
They work at the University of St. Thomas. Ironic they should portray us as doubters.
Hysteria and damn lies. Far more overblown drama than the myth that the “Red Scare” was mere hysteria.
The Green Menace is deceit designed to hamstring American productivity and lifestyles. Knock us down a few pegs because our standard of living was “too good”.
Idiot liberals never learn history. “Population Bomb”, the idiot liberal book, claimed in the 1960’s that Earth cannot possibly support the billions of people we have now and we were all going to starve to death.
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