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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

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To: NormsRevenge
per some scientists opines

If you pay attention to that article, their study was performed by a PHD STUDENT!

81 posted on 05/12/2014 6:36:51 PM PDT by Antoninus II
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To: JW1949

Not true. When the ice melts in my soda it over flows... Right???

OH WAIT. I left my liberal hat on.


82 posted on 05/12/2014 6:44:25 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Williams

Was there any mention of the GIANT FREAKING ACTIVE VOLCANO FIELD underneath it? What caused that? Fracking?


83 posted on 05/12/2014 6:46:59 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: TexasFreeper2009
the Antarctic ice sheet is bigger than ever, I have no idea what this nonsense is talking about.

Being something of a scientist myself,
I can straighten it out:

The way you know it's global warming is: it gets cooler. No-- Just wait; I'll explain:

Warming due to clouds of methane from cattle, which is supplemented similar emissions from the benighted people who eat those defenseless, gentle creatures, forms a gaseous tent which traps sunlight which warms the earth, which causes the polar ice caps to melt. This melting ice then cools the water, which chills the winds as they make their way to the blades of our windmills. These winds have to work extra hard to get through the windmill farms, they tucker out and slow down, but they're still chilled from all those ice cubes in the ocean--so chilled that by the time they finally warm up they've wandered off to somewhere else. Then people in the vicinity of the tuckered winds feel cold and decide that a nice pot of chili is just the thing, and the cycle begins again.

84 posted on 05/12/2014 7:04:22 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: NormsRevenge

Bookmark


85 posted on 05/12/2014 7:07:11 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Big Giant Head
the land would RISE up from the sea level with all that mass removed.

Yes, the mechanism is called "isostatic rebound." It's happening right now in the Great Lakes region and other places around the world where former vast ice sheets have retreated due to natural "global warming." But it's a very slow process happening over thousands of years. It would be barely measurable in a normal human lifetime.

86 posted on 05/12/2014 7:11:00 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: NormsRevenge

Climate change has been unstoppable for 4 billion years, prepare for it.


87 posted on 05/12/2014 7:26:50 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: jyro

Not to worry...we heading for another Dalton Minimum because the Sun’s magnetic field is declining....so less sunspots are created....and the Earth COOLS.


88 posted on 05/12/2014 7:31:27 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: spokeshave
Sorry...make that a Maunder Minimum...


89 posted on 05/12/2014 7:33:39 PM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: NormsRevenge

Living at 5100’ above sea level, it should not be a threat to my lawn.


90 posted on 05/12/2014 7:34:48 PM PDT by Ranger Warrior
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To: NormsRevenge
NBC: Two teams of scientists say the long-feared collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun, kicking off what they say will be a centuries-long, "unstoppable" process that could raise sea levels by as much as 15 feet. here

This article: 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.

Someone exaggerating? or is everyone exaggerating? :)

91 posted on 05/12/2014 7:46:22 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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To: NormsRevenge

This is about the f’n millionth time some commie rat leftist has told me something is going to kill me. The real evidence shows that they are either stupid or they are congenital liars. I choose the latter.


92 posted on 05/12/2014 8:20:46 PM PDT by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: NormsRevenge

Check out what Joe Bastardi had to say earlier this week about the ice at the poles and the global amount of ice.
http://www.weatherbell.com/saturday-summary-may-10-2014

Piers Corbyn talks about the next thirty years about the chill coming to a planet near you at the end of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R26PXRrgds


93 posted on 05/12/2014 8:31:55 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: NormsRevenge

That Beach front property in Arizona is starting to look good.


94 posted on 05/12/2014 8:34:27 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Beyond defence: Why we can’t beat the Soviets”

Yep, that’s our Time Magazine alright.


95 posted on 05/12/2014 8:56:32 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Farmer Dean

“A couple of miles of ice on top of Chicago should take care of the crime problem there.”

Has been known to keep out the riff raff


96 posted on 05/12/2014 8:56:48 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/12/Study-Himalayan-glaciers-not-disappearing-after-all

Delingpole debunks the Himalayan scare; he’ll get around to the Antarctic scare soon, I’m sure.


97 posted on 05/12/2014 9:05:39 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: NormsRevenge

let’s assume it all “melts”

the incredulous theory attempts to suggest the rise in sea level will be directly proportional to the amount of water locked up as ice

so none will evaporate and become water molecules in the atmosphere??

and even then none of those water molecules will fall as rain that ends up in land locked lakes??

none of the rain that originates from evaporation of the melting ice will raise the ground water level, or raise the water level in any wells or underground reservoirs or aquifers?? anyhere???

it all will remain “in the ocean”???

I think those that think a melting glacier can only contribute to a sea level rise do not understand ANY “environmental science” about water.


98 posted on 05/12/2014 9:31:29 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Spirochete
The melt ice below sea level can't contribute, since it will fill the depression it already occupies.

Problem is the ice above sea level.

99 posted on 05/12/2014 9:35:55 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: spokeshave

What, me worry? Sa la vie. What ever happens, we have no control at all and never will. Thinking we do is crazy and a waste of time and resources.


100 posted on 05/12/2014 10:25:40 PM PDT by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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