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Thin Glaciers Get Thinner in Antarctica
Reuters ^
| 9/24/2004
| Maggie Fox
Posted on 09/24/2004 12:01:10 PM PDT by TChris
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To: koolaidsmile
Thin Glaciers Get Thinner...And, Johnny's get'n laaaarger
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:15:41 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Zavien Doombringer
Water level will not increase. Actually, it will increase, these are ANTARCTIC Glaciers, which means they are on LAND. They are not currently displacing the oceans.
Having said that, I dont know why anybody expected the earth to remain constant, it is always undergoing change..
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:15:43 PM PDT
by
Paradox
(Occam was probably right.)
To: bjmorris
Of course, it's because they sent four-wheel-drive martian rovers (or, more commonly, SUV martian rovers) which are notorious for their emission of greenhouse gasses.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:16:31 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Why can't anyone manage to prosecute and imprison traitor politicians?)
To: TChris
I think I'm gonna go buy a big-ass SUV and drive around all weekend to celebrate.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:17:04 PM PDT
by
GaltMeister
(I'm just a Pajamahadeen cog in the wheels of the VRWC.)
To: Paradox
If the Antartic Glaciers are thinning, it is due to evaporation. Just as water is evaporating from the oceans, at the same rate. Water always finds it's level, so where it is lacking, it will fill up, the sahara dessert will finally become a rain forrest.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:18:42 PM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(I am not late for Zots, I have stealth Zot capability.....)
To: Zavien Doombringer
In addition, water is the only substance on earth that contracts as it melts. Therefore, the volume of space occupied by a melted ice cube is less than the volume of space that it occupied when it was a cube.
Having said that, there is no reason to assume that melting glaciers would have no impact on sea level. When the glacier is frozen, the water isn't in the sea -- so when it melts, the water flows down and increases the volume of the body of water underneath it.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:18:56 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I made enough money to buy Miami -- but I pissed it away on the Alternative Minimum Tax.)
To: TChris
You better stop scaring me like this!
I read your post and ran for the refigerator. The ice bucket was full.
This must be a local phenomenon.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:19:43 PM PDT
by
G.Mason
(Mr. Rather ... do you have any last words?... No? ... you may put the black hood on him executioner.)
To: NorseWood
Oh, great. Now the planet is going to wobble like a bent dredl.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:20:42 PM PDT
by
patton
(Die Frau haette sich keine Sorgen dabai, aber meine Freundin wuerde mich sofort um die Ecke bringen!)
To: Zavien Doombringer
Place a lot of ice cubes in a bowl (large salad bowl), then fill with water until the ice floats. When the water over flows the bowl, that's when you can panic, It won't happen though. It's called Displacement. The ice floating in the water already has taken the space of the melt water that will replace the area the ice has taken up. Water level will not increase. Actually, to make the experiment more analogous to earth, you would need to place some rocks in the salad bowl with the tops of the rocks protruding above the top of the water, and then put some of the ice on top of those rocks and not just in the water. That way, when the ice on top of the rocks melts, the salad bowl will over-flow.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:21:59 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(A bunny-slippered operative in the Vast Right-Wing Pajama Party.)
To: TChris
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:22:15 PM PDT
by
branch1
To: farmfriend
To: TChris; RadioAstronomer; Physicist
It'd be great if we ended up in another ice age.
I'd personally laugh about it.
Last I read, the previous Ice Age was supposedly preceded by a marked rise in global temp before crashing.
And this was long before the eee-vil SUV and long before man fiddled with coal or other fuels.
*chuckle*
There are guys here who are versed in this stuff, so I'll ping some guys who are likely to knwo, or know someone who does.
I suspect that the Earth is doing it's normal cycle of shifting weather patterns.
Similar to precession of the constellations, Earth's climate also shifts.
There are places in Africa that used to get monsoon rains, monsoon rains that now occur many miles further east.
So I'm not surprised by glaciers melting away in one place or another.
Astronomer, Physicist, anything you guys have run across on this at all, or anyone you know run across this stuff lately?
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:23:01 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Liberalism is political domestic abuse.)
To: spodefly
For antartica yes, but for the Artic, no...
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:25:01 PM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(I am not late for Zots, I have stealth Zot capability.....)
To: AnalogReigns
Not time to be beach front property in Antartica either.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:25:56 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: Darksheare
Hey Dark...you did it again...so I'll ping some guys who are likely to knwo
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:26:27 PM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(I am not late for Zots, I have stealth Zot capability.....)
To: TChris
Time to invest in South-pole timeshares.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:26:52 PM PDT
by
FFIGHTER
To: Darksheare
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:27:52 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Why can't anyone manage to prosecute and imprison traitor politicians?)
To: Darksheare
From some Physic Profs in Col. they said if all of the water on and above the earth were to suddenly combine, the water level could be 6 feet above mount everest.
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:28:25 PM PDT
by
Zavien Doombringer
(I am not late for Zots, I have stealth Zot capability.....)
To: Zavien Doombringer
Typo demon!!
I'll have to find him and crush him soemtiem!
(sometime)
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Liberalism is political domestic abuse.)
To: Zavien Doombringer
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posted on
09/24/2004 12:30:13 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Why can't anyone manage to prosecute and imprison traitor politicians?)
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