Thin Glaciers Get Thinner in Antarctica

Reuters ^ | 9/24/2004 | Maggie Fox

[LurkedLongEnough]

Each year, the global warming subject was raised. The boys' school would print the same old cartoon in their paper, proudly exclaiming that the melting problem could be solved simply by having the local girls' school students sit on the glaciers/icebergs, etc.

[Casloy]

So, are saying maybe the west coast could be the western border of Nevada? I knew I liked global warming.

[RetSignman]

Here's a test you can do at home to debunk the theory, that when glaciers melt the sea levels rise.

Fill a glass full of ice cubes, then add as much water to it as you can and wait for it to melt. The glass will NOT overflow. It's all about displacement and gases in ice.

[frgoff]

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Actually, it will increase, these are ANTARCTIC Glaciers, which means they are on LAND. They are not currently displacing the oceans.
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Except that their weight does cause the landmass to sink. I have never seen any studies on how much the continent of Antarctica will rise when relieved of trillions and trillions of tons of ice.

Of course, the weather patterns that are causing the glaciers to flow at an increased rate may also wind up causing the snowfall over Antarctica to increase significantly as well.

[Darksheare]

Sorry about the keyboard!
I guess you shouldn't see the MTV2 Video Mods where they have the game SSX 3 snowboarding.. and they have a band member from one of the bands featured in said dementia rendered as a Yeti complete with dancing skeletons.
I forget the band name, and they don't have all the video mods listed on their site yet..
*grr*

[snakeoil]

How much of the Glaciers is above water and not at water level. So much for your displacement theory.
We are skating on thin ice- Reason, your guess is as good as mine. It appently has happened millions of years ago and will probably happen again.

[four more in O 4]

Thankfully the planet is only 100 years old and we know everything there is to know about it's cycles.

Thankfully.

I think that maybe, just maybe someone has too much time on their hands and or can't handle getting a real job or just simply researching something they can hope to have some real insight into.

Now if they could tell me how to get rid of all the spam in my inbox -- that -- would be something.

[RightWhale]

Some of the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers are coming off land rather than forming in water.

[Serb5150]

It's about time. My office is freezing.

[RetSignman]

Two thirds is under water because of weight, as the one third melts, the glacier rises and IT will melt.
Now about the gases?

[snakeoil]

Belch!

[Willie Green]

"The ... Amundsen Sea glaciers contain enough ice to raise sea level by 1.3 meters (4 feet),"

Cool! Four foot isn't very deep.
Even little short people (5'2") can wade through that without getting on their little tippy toes.
Besides, I'm kinda curious about what's been under those glaciers all these years.
Maybe the Discovery Channel will run a new documentary about it.
This could save an awful lot of digging!

[Darksheare]

You too?
I've wanted to know what's under the ice near lake Vostok.
Especially since the lake's currents apparently are driven by thermal vents of one kind or another.
Or so a Scientific American article guessed a couple years back.

[erikm88]

Jimmy Hoffa?

[Gary - Peters]

This is great. All it takes is a bit of babbling froma neurotic enviro-liberal who thinks (s)he can save the earth or make a difference. Isn't that cute ?

But it brings out the few scientists on line who set the matter straight.

Ever try to argue with one of these green-psychos with real facts, science, mechanics. Those were the "bio" majors we went to school with who couldn't handle the rigors of the hard science and math.

You can't argue scientificaly with a green-psycho, they only yell back louder. The weight of the truth is wasted on them. Their coalition is as grouped for political liberal effect as it is concerned about real environmental science.

Just watch their eyes glaze over and roll back into their heads as you speak a little something simple like Newton's exponential law of cooling.

[phil1750]

And, Johnny's get'n laaaarger

Thank you, I really needed a laugh, took me almost 50 post to get-up out of the floor to reply though.

[Puppage]

My pleasure. Have a great weekend.

Pete

[Willie Green]

Jimmy Hoffa?

Maybe.
But that'd be a pretty disappointing anti-climax.
If they find him there, I'd hope they keep it secret just to keep people guessing.
I'm hoping they find something MUCH more exciting than Jimmy.
Maybe something like a Stargate! Now THAT would be cool!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More Fear mongering.

But think of the good benefits, like homesteading in Greenland!

[Designed]

Someone needs to help me here with the exact numbers -- but I took my family on a trip to the Canadian Rockies several years ago and we walked out to the Athabasca ice fields and glacier. They have monuments in the ground to show how much the ice has been melting and receding for many years. Help me here -- is it about 150 or 160 years or so? At any rate, the ice has been melting steadily for a long time, and long before automobiles started making greenhouse gasses.