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Antarctica is melting faster, and we're not ready for the sea level rise that's coming (tr)
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| June 16, 2018
| Kevin Loria
Posted on 06/17/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: crz
I think that eruption went on for weeks.
An ancillary effect was that we abandoned Clark Air Base in the Philippines. As I recall, lease negotiations were happening at that time to extend our lease on that base, and on Subic Bay. I think it was decided that there was so much damage at Clark that there was no point in trying to do a lease and also repair and clean up the volcano damage.
To: EdnaMode
Between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica lost more than 3.3 trillion tons of ice, causing sea levels around the globe to rise an average of 8 millimeters. About 40% of that loss occurred between 2012 and 2017, according to the new study. From 1992 to 2012, the continent lost about 84 billion tons of ice a year, and over the next five years, that jumped to more than 240 billion tons per year.Let'ds do some arithmetic. 1992-2012 is ~20 years. 2012-2017 is five years. Then (20*84+5*240) billion = 2880 billion tons of ice. Where is the other ~400 billion tons? A 15% exaggeration is par for the course for these liars.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:37:51 AM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: beethovenfan
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:38:56 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: EdnaMode
To: SMGFan
Within a short period of time, we'll have either taken action to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, or we won't.
They have been beating this dead horse since Reagan was still in office.
"Time" has run out on several of this 'predictions" And just like Nostradamus 'predictions" they get 'better' only in hindsight so they can claim to be "right' about the future.
Their research grant money must be running out.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:39:12 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
To: MCF
So in 25 years the ocean levels world wide raised 5/16. At that rate it would take 960 years to raise one foot. Call me an optimist or a Pollyanna, but I personally see no need to worry about this.Your doubting of the truths of the global warming faith is bordering on racism and homophobia!
To: eyedigress
If he send me 1k a week, I will freeze his water for him :^D
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:40:36 AM PDT
by
Bikkuri
To: EdnaMode
To: CodeToad
Even Lone Palm Island, a 40x40 foot island with a lone palm tree is still doing just fine. Until one of us missileers misses our target and hits it with an RV. :-)
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:41:28 AM PDT
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: EdnaMode
Oh no!!!!! We must do something!! But what exactly??!!! Spend money. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:41:32 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no gstandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: EdnaMode
This is a “Press Release” based article, published in a magazine ignorant of science and quoting a “climate scientist”, not a glaciologist. Anyone can claim to be a climate scientist, it is not a scientific discipline. These articles are designed to stir up the public and grease the skids on grant proposals. Part of a self licking ice cream to sustain a phony academic industry.
Ask a few questions. Why does this article neglect to make a distinction between ice sheets anchored on continental terrain and those sitting on bodies of water? Because then they would have to explain why ice sheets on water will not raise sea level by a single millimeter, they are floating. Then they have to explain how the dynamics of glacier flow from the uplands of Antarctica to the sea has changed over time. Any snow deposited on land above sea level, will eventually flow to the sea. They are claiming that expected changes are extraordinary and a new phenomena. Be skeptical.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
centurion316
(Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
To: EdnaMode
Between 1992 and 2017, Antarctica lost more than 3.3 trillion tons of ice, causing sea levels around the globe to rise an average of 8 millimeters.I don't have my conversion chart handy. How many feet is that?
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:43:01 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no gstandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: xp38
Thank you. I was wondering where the pic of the Reichsminister for propaganda was.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:43:24 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
(..)
To: Steely Tom
We live on a canal 2 clicks off of St. Pete Beach and we have a causeway bridge right next to our property. In the almost 30 years we have lived here, never has a boater remarked that the waterway under the bridge has changed one bit; and the boaters, especially the commercial fishing boats, would know.
If you ask them they give you a strange look and just laugh.
To: EdnaMode
What ever. This is a water planet and we know how to make crap float.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:45:19 AM PDT
by
tomkat
To: EdnaMode
If the acceleration of ice melt were to continue, it could potentially cascade, leading to runaway ice melt and rapid sea level rise."If", "were to", "could", and "potentially". Well, hell, if you're THAT sure about it, then, yes, by all means, someone should do something.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:45:41 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no gstandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: EdnaMode
We just re-watched The Day After. Laughed the entire movie through.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:45:47 AM PDT
by
pabianice
(LINE)
To: Dilbert San Diego
it was decided that there was so much damage at Clark that there was no point in trying to do a lease and also repair and clean up the volcano damage.
The (Philippine)government's greed and, timing of the end of the Cold War, killed any hope of maintaining both bases.
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posted on
06/17/2018 11:45:53 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(" Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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