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West Antarctic glacier loss: 'We have passed the point of no return'
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 05-12-2014 | Pete Spotts

Posted on 05/12/2014 4:39:57 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016

Two studies released Monday signal that five glaciers in West Antarctica are undergoing irreversible decline over the next several hundred years, signaling sea level-rise of nearly four feet.

Five glaciers that feed continental ice from Antarctica into the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean – glaciers long seen as the soft underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – are undergoing irreversible decline, two new studies indicate.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antarctica; glacier; ice; liberaldopes; westantarctica
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1 posted on 05/12/2014 4:39:57 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
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We're doomed unless we stop all of this nonsense and take back control of the weather.

/s

2 posted on 05/12/2014 4:41:23 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

Seriously? These liars and con artists just won’t stop, will they?


3 posted on 05/12/2014 4:42:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Don’t they have record ice down there this year?


4 posted on 05/12/2014 4:42:52 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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First, I think it’s all lies.
Second, how can anyone say it’s “irreversible”?
Third, why not just say we’ll all die tomorrow unless we are taxed at 99%?


5 posted on 05/12/2014 4:43:12 PM PDT by Principled (Obama: Unblemished by success.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

I guess they will just have to learn how to breath under water.


6 posted on 05/12/2014 4:43:30 PM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

“We have passed the point of no return,”

Great. No we can quit worrying about ‘stopping’ it. Smoke em if you got em, fire up the generator, and lets carbon it up like its 1999!


7 posted on 05/12/2014 4:43:48 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

OMG, we’re all gonna die!


8 posted on 05/12/2014 4:43:51 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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Why wont anyone ever explain how record and growing levels of ice lead to less ice.

I just want that one thing addressed in public. Make the authors of studies predicting the opposite of observable reality show why observable reality is wrong and their imaginings are correct.

On Global warming, on Obamacare...all of it.


9 posted on 05/12/2014 4:44:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: mountainlion

The east shelf is setting records....left out of the article.


10 posted on 05/12/2014 4:44:33 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: mountainlion

Do they?


11 posted on 05/12/2014 4:44:33 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: PaulCruz2016

Irreversible? Awesome! Does that mean you’ll stop whining about it now since it’s a lot cause?


12 posted on 05/12/2014 4:44:35 PM PDT by Luircin
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I wish we had the space age technology our ancestors had tens of thousands of years ago that allowed them to survive climate change.


13 posted on 05/12/2014 4:45:27 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: PaulCruz2016
And in other news...

Antartic Sea Ice At All Time Record Levels

14 posted on 05/12/2014 4:45:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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“five glaciers in West Antarctica are undergoing irreversible decline”

Yeah right....

I remember videos at the Mt Rainier Visitor Center showing over time how glaciers on one side of the mountain were shrinking while the glaciers on the other side were growing. Over time they all yoyoed up and down.


15 posted on 05/12/2014 4:46:09 PM PDT by BillT (If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
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To: PaulCruz2016

Send your refrigerator ice cubes and leftover drink-cup ice so that the Weathernazis can ship it to needy Antarctic penguins.


16 posted on 05/12/2014 4:47:00 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: PaulCruz2016

Good. Getting rid of all that ice will make mining coal and drilling for oil and gas a whole lot easier.


17 posted on 05/12/2014 4:47:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: trisham

Do you think we could get some of these expert brainiacs to modify Cheney’s Halliburton Hurricane Machine to work on polar ice?


18 posted on 05/12/2014 4:48:26 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: PaulCruz2016

So if it is irreversible why worry? Anyhow you have several hundred years to think about it.


19 posted on 05/12/2014 4:50:18 PM PDT by ully2
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To: Calvin Locke

It’s worth a try.


20 posted on 05/12/2014 4:50:21 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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