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Rise of Oceans Due to Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Is 'Unstoppable'
Yahoo! News ^ | 5/12/14 | Danielle Wiener-Bronner - atlantic wire

Posted on 05/12/2014 5:03:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Two forthcoming reports on the western Antarctic ice sheet confirm previous fears that the ice's melt will increase ocean levels by as much as 13 feet within the next few centuries. They also suggest that the process has already begun — and is likely not reversible.

The New York Times reports that both papers — one by NASA scientists, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, and one by University of Washington scientists to appear in Science — find that the West Antarctic ice sheet is melting because of naturally-occurring warm water welling up from deep in the ocean.

None of this is surprising to those paying attention to the state of the West Antarctic, per the Times, which reports that the late Dr. John H. Mercer predicted the unstoppable melt back in 1978:

The basic problem is that much of the West Antarctic ice sheet sits below sea level in a kind of bowl-shaped depression [in] the earth. As Dr. Mercer outlined in 1978, once the part of the ice sheet sitting on the rim of the bowl melts and the ice retreats into deeper water, it becomes unstable and highly vulnerable to further melting.

Now, scientists are saying that the situation in the Antarctic has passed a crucial threshold. "There's no stabilizing mechanism," said Dr. Ian Joughin, lead author of the paper slated to appear in Science. Even if if the melt rate was too slow, it would be "too little, too late to stabilize the ice sheet," he adds. And NASA's Thomas P. Wagner said "this is really happening. There's nothing to stop it now."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antarctic; climatechangehoax; doomage; globalwarminghoax; icesheet; icesheetlies; melting; nasa; oceans; unstoppable
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To: forgotten man

The first Hitler proved telling a lie often enough and the idiot masses believe it it true.

Part 2.


41 posted on 05/12/2014 5:25:24 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: cripplecreek

It's ok. We're ready.

42 posted on 05/12/2014 5:25:37 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Farmer Dean

Here’s hoping al isn’t in Colorado..*-o

Mid-May storm buries Colorado flower beds under 3 feet of snow
http://news.yahoo.com/tornado-hits-nebraska-town-causing-damage-one-injury-032637178—finance.html


43 posted on 05/12/2014 5:25:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Gee, I thought His Wonness took care of that.


44 posted on 05/12/2014 5:25:41 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Farmer Dean
there's prolly more than a little truth in that statement
45 posted on 05/12/2014 5:26:06 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: JW1949
Sheet ice or floating ice already is part of the ocean’s volume.

Much like the cubes melting in a glass of water. This is the analogy I use to educate the ignorant. Watch the melting cubes and see if the glass overflows.

Even if ALL the ice sitting in the water melts, the water level won’t rise...

Also, the article admits that much of the ice sheet sits *below sea level* in a depression in the earth. The melt ice below sea level can't contribute, since it will fill the depression it already occupies.

46 posted on 05/12/2014 5:26:55 PM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: NormsRevenge

They are desperate because they know no one is listening to them. Not even their own morons are much concerned with warming, I mean change, I mean disruption.

So they have to shriek. This is shrieking.


47 posted on 05/12/2014 5:27:45 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: NormsRevenge; All
Here is an experiment for all of you that didn't take or understand high school physics. They taught us that water volume expands as it freezes and conversely, ice volume contracts as it melts.

The experiment:

1. Place some ice cubes in a glass tumbler.

2. Cover the ice cubes with water almost to the top of the tumbler.

3. Mark the water level with electrician's or duct tape.

4. Set tumbler full of ice and water on the middle of a table in a warm room.

5. Allow the ice to melt and note the new water level.

6. Report back.

7. Spread the word!

48 posted on 05/12/2014 5:28:18 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: NormsRevenge
reports on the western Antarctic ice sheet confirm previous fears that the ice's melt will increase ocean levels by as much as 13 feet

How much will that screw up NYC?

49 posted on 05/12/2014 5:29:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The “debunking” will follow right behind..... can’t wait to read that.


50 posted on 05/12/2014 5:30:26 PM PDT by high info voter
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To: NormsRevenge

“”fears that the ice’s melt will increase ocean levels by as much as 13 feet within the next few centuries.””

I’ll be dead by then so I will tell my kin to put my casket up high.


51 posted on 05/12/2014 5:30:37 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: tet68

Let’s stand him on his head.


52 posted on 05/12/2014 5:33:34 PM PDT by Proud_texan (Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. - PK Dick)
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To: NormsRevenge
um... the Antarctic ice sheet is bigger than ever, I have no idea what this nonsense is talking about.
53 posted on 05/12/2014 5:37:01 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: tet68

>>If there is no way to stop it now, then the only thing to do is sell your beach front properties and move inland and build beach condos in expectation of future profits...

That’s why the 1% wants the middle class dead. We can’t afford the beach front stuff, so we live a couple miles inland. Now they want our property for the future beach front and we’re already there. </sarc>


54 posted on 05/12/2014 5:39:27 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: PGR88

I’m still screwed in West Texas!


55 posted on 05/12/2014 5:40:04 PM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: NormsRevenge

Invest now in beachfront property ... in Denver!


56 posted on 05/12/2014 5:40:15 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

winter is just starting down there ,so it should freeze up real good or will it all melt


57 posted on 05/12/2014 5:40:55 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Proud_texan

Now it’s morning.

Look look, the pyramid is opening up...

Which one?


58 posted on 05/12/2014 5:41:26 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009; All
the Antarctic ice sheet is bigger than ever, I have no idea what this nonsense is talking about.

South Pole: Green is ice present in 2013, which was not present in 1992. Red shows the opposite.


59 posted on 05/12/2014 5:41:44 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: NormsRevenge

How much of California will this get rid of?

Bye bye New Orleans...

Florida won’t be much of a loss either.


60 posted on 05/12/2014 5:42:18 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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