[Knitting A Conundrum]

The world is a dynamic place...glaciers come and glaciers go...Anybody who expects the world to stand still and be the same always is going to be disapointed.

[Not now, Not ever!]

This still doesn't explain why the Ross tide mark, placed in the 1800's is above the waterline.

[ccmay]

Three-tenths of a millimeter a year! Man the pump handles! We're all going to drown!

-ccm

[claudiustg]

Let's see now:

---Yet the shrinking of Greenland and Antarctica remains crucial because together they hold enough water to make sea levels rise by 70 metres, submerging vast swathes of land and displacing millions.---

So:

---Having reviewed the latest data, the pair conclude that losses from the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica contribute 0.35 millimetres per year to the total rate of sea level rise, estimated at 3 mm per year.---

It would take 200,000 years @ 0.35 for them to contribute there 70 meters to our catastrophe and at a rate of 3mm/year it would take 23,333 years.

And what are we going to do? Buy carbon offsets?

[doc1019]

In other words … they don’t know what will happen!

[secretagent]

3 mm per year x 100 years = 300 mm per century or 30 cm per century or 11.8 inches per century rise, at the current rate.

Of course that could change, but I think Gore predicted a 20 foot rise - over what period I don't know.

I've heard 20 inches, too.

[PA Engineer]

current rise is due to the expansion of water as it warms

Say What?

[seastay]

further south, there is no problems with ice formation, take a look at this glacier formed in the cinder cone of Mt St Helen's in just a few decades. Over the last 21 years, snow, ice and rock debris have accumulated behind the Lava Dome to an average depth of 100 meters (325 feet) thick.

[hermgem]

For those with memory recall: There was a ship, 100 years ago, called the unsinkable Titanic, which tried to make a maiden Atlantic crossing in record time.
Problem: An iceberg floated in her way, collided with this sip and caused this unsinkable boat to...sink.
The blame universally was attributed to the Captain who was judged to have disregarded icebergs floating in the Atlantic for the previous 100 years.
And this goes like that:
The Titanic sunk 100 years ago caused by the then well known fact that for the previous 100 years or a total of 200 years ice broke up...in Greenland and drifted into the Atlantic.
Haven't noticed any rise in sea levels yet or are catastrophic floods just around the next melt?

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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I believe a good bit of this has been debunked.

[exmoor]

Fill a glass about 3/4 full with water...put in enough ice cubes until water level is at rim and some of the ice is projecting up higher than the glass rim. Set aside and let time do it's thing. I've yet to have the glass overflow.

[JustDoItAlways]

First, sea level has been increasing at 1 to 3 mms per year every year since the end of the ice age. More precisely, the sea level has been rising at 1 to 3 mms per year since the bulk of the ice age glaciers disappeared about 6,000 years ago. Before that, sea level was rising as fast as 5 cms (2 inches) per year at the the heighth of ice age melting.

It is natural in an interglacial like we are in for the sea level to rise very slowly even after the bulk of the ice age glaciers have melted.

Other satellite measures show that Greenland and Antarctica are increasing in ice mass.

So as usual, the study is data selection and not telling the complete story, so that the general public is mislead.

The authors, however, will now be invited to all the great global warming parties and they will have their grant applications approved.