Greenland Ice Swells Ocean Rise

BBC ^ | 2-16-2006 | Paul Ricon

[blam]

I'm in the process of reading Jared Diamond's book Collapse he said that if all the ice on Greenland were to melt the world's oceans would rise by 20 feet.

Also, he said the Viking colony that was there starved to death due to climate change.

Me, I think we're still coming out of the Ice Age.

[SampleMan]

"We are concerned because we know that sea levels have been able to rise much faster in the past - 10 times faster.

So if its happened before, prior to the Industrial Revolution????

[MikefromOhio]

DOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMEEEEDDDDD!!!!

[Tamar1973]

Greenland Ice Swells Ocean Rise

So Greenland might actually might be green someday?

[westmichman]

I think I heard Pat Robertson say that it is God melting the ice to punish the liberals on the east and west coasts.

[marron]

So Greenland might actually might be green someday?

So Greenland might actually be green again.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Collapse" was very good. Required reading, IMHO.

"It was thought the entire Greenland ice sheet could melt in about 1,000 years, but the latest evidence suggests that could happen much sooner."

So in 999 years, maybe? *Snort*

[Daralundy]

Greenland's glaciers are sliding towards the sea much faster than previously believed, scientists have told a conference in St Louis, US.

Maybe they just weren't measuring them right before. I don't think they know what they are talking about.

[djf]

Global sea levels up by 7 meters?

That's quite a bit more than I woulda thought.

[marron]

You are probably familiar with the viking farm that was buried when the ice advanced, that has in recent years been uncovered thanks in part to the withdrawal of the ice; it is an archaelogical dig site.

[blam]

"So Greenland might actually be green again."

It's my understanding that it's as green there today as it was when Eric decided to settle there about 1000AD.

[Doctor Don]

Gulp! That means we are gonna have to start drinking more water.

[colorado tanker]

The History Channel did a piece on Greenland that said the same thing; perhaps it was based on that book. The archaeological evidence suggests that the settlers increasingly tried to keep their livestock alive in barns over the ever-harsher winters but eventually had to turn almost exclusively to fish as the climate no longer supported growing enough forage. Turned out they weren't very good at fishing and didn't have enough food.

[ApplegateRanch]

Look on the bright side. The people flooded ...Fiji, Vanuatu, etc, ...out by rising sea levels will have a nice, new territory to occupy.

Mankind did ot beofre, and will have to do it again. The only difference thgis time is that we have the MSM & evironazis yammering about it non-stop.

An even brighter side is that this makes should make moot any plans to rebuild NOLA.

[leadhead]

Maybe they just weren't measuring them right before. I don't think they know what they are talking about.

Oh, they do know! What they're doing is called research grant trolling.

[ApplegateRanch]

Gulp! That means we are gonna have to start drinking more water.

Why waste it? Use it to brew whiskey!

[thackney]

I thought global warming was going to stop or slow down the gulf stream, making that part of the world much colder. How would Greanland continue to warm?

[Gritty]

We're doomed. DOOMED I say...

Wait a minute. I've spent a lot of time in Greenland, and I really like it. It's beautiful, with HUGE potential and would be a great place to live if it were only a bit warmer. Maybe I'd be wise to start buying up icy real estate for the coming boom? It's cheap now...

[Paulus Invictus]

It was in 1000 AD and the Vikings made it into a livable and arable place. When the Little Ice Age arrived, Greenland became snowland. The sun is working its magic again, right on time.

[soccer_maniac]

be sure to buy a house in the mountains, just in case :)