Rise of Oceans Due to Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Is 'Unstoppable'

Yahoo! News ^ | 5/12/14 | Danielle Wiener-Bronner - atlantic wire

[Ditter]

We have a relative who is already wetting himself over glowbull warming! He will probably end it all when he reads this headline.

[DannyTN]

Yes, Tennessee Ocean front property at last!!!

Besides we need the seas to rise, so that when we build desalination plants to provide the west water, the impact will be minimized.

Bigger oceans mean more seafood. More carbon dioxide means more vegetables and grains.

[kik5150]

Snow and ice can almost never melt in Antarctica because the daily high temperature for virtually all locations is below freezing. The primary cause of snow and ice loss is through sublimation, meaning that solar activity is to blame, clearly nothing that man could do.

[Proud_texan]

The one with the ever widening hole?

Hehe, you're really stretching my memory.

[Be Free]

OMG! That makes the potential for catastrophe even greater! All that extra ice means even more water when it melts!

Oh NOOOOSSSSS! What shall we do?!?!

{/sarcasm}

[odawg]

Summer is just ending in the Southern Hemisphere. Of course, there will be some melting, just before it freezes again.

[Farmer Dean]

If I ever meet Al,I have one question to ask him.
“Al,is your breath that bad or are you standing on your head?”

[Big Giant Head]

But what if all the ice located on land (Iceland, Greenland, Antarctica etc.) melts?

That would be a LOT of weight removed from the land, and the land would RISE up from the sea level with all that mass removed.

[muir_redwoods]

I believe a good deal of the southern ice sits atop the continent of Antarctica. I don’t know if the melt they’re talking about is restricted to floating ice or includes the ground based ice.

[QT3.14]

I’m looking at houseboat choices. Win-Win! /s

[Teacher317]

Rise of Oceans Due to Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Is 'Unstoppable'

Who the heck made some idiot "scientists" the arbiters of exactly what Mother Nature should be doing on a daily basis, and gave them the unconscionably sanctimonious task of telling the rest of us how many trillions to spend and waste in an effort to keep up with their Oracle-like decisions?!?!?!?!?

[immadashell]

Everything was cool until the damned Neanderthals learned how to put gasoline in their SUVs 13,001 years ago.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Time to party like it’s 1999.

[Amagi]

Our only hope is immediate World Wide Communism.

[Fai Mao]

Actually if all the sheet ice melted the ocean levels would fall a bit as ice takes up 9% more volume than liquid water of the same mass.

Or am I wrong about that?

Obviously continental ice shelves like on the Antarctic mainland are a different story

[Foolsgold]

um... the Antarctic ice sheet is bigger than ever, I have no idea what this nonsense is talking about.

and winter is just starting in the southern hemisphere.

[hinckley buzzard]

It has been well-known that the west antarctic region has been subject to warm ocean currents for essentially forever. There is also subterranean and undersea volcanic heating in that region.

The article is based on misleading and fraudulent junk science issued in concert with the political assault being waged by the Junta against the American people and the rest of the west.

[rottndog]

[Foolsgold]

um... the Antarctic ice sheet is bigger than ever, I have no idea what this nonsense is talking about.

and winter is just starting in the southern hemisphere.

[Procyon]

I’m sure if the world governments raise the carbon tax high enough they’ll have enough money to solve the problem /s