Where some see disaster others see urban renewal.
I think Tush completely missed the callers excellent point. Land Mass or no land mass when the ice falls into the water, most of the sea level’s rising would take place then, as floating ice is 90% below the surface, AND ice expands so as it melts, less volume would be underwater, replaced by the remaining chunk of iceburg.
I think Rush completely missed the callers excellent point. Land Mass or no land mass when the ice falls into the water, most of the sea level’s rising would take place then, as floating ice is 90% below the surface, AND ice expands so as it melts, less volume would be underwater, replaced by the remaining chunk of iceburg.
This would have been the case 9,000 years ago when global warming peaked after the end of the last ice age and sea level was about 20 to 30 feet higher than today.
When the next ice age hits expect sea level to drop about 450 to 500 feet to the edge of the continental shelves.
Glaciers are rivers of ice. They flow to the sea.
When they calve off giant icebergs, it’s because the ice is growing and flowing. If it was ‘melting’, it would flow as water and there would be NO ICEBERGS.
How about Photoshopping Al Gore’s seaside mansion being inundated by the rising Pacific?
1.) IF we assume that CO2 is the root problem to Global Warming and Climate Change, THEN consider what would happen if atmospheric CO2 were, somehow, to be eliminated:
The process of Photosynthesis, defined chemically as follows:
6CO2 + 6H2O + (n)photons = C6H12O6 + 6CO2
would cease to generate carbohydrates, (C6H12O6), for most plants and the animals that eat the plants and eat the animals that eat the plants.
2.) To the best of my research, there has never been a cause and effect experiment that establishes that a change* in the concentration of CO2 has had a measurable effect on the temperature of the air.
*Note: at atmospheric concentrations of CO2 approximating maximum to minimum living conditions for most plants.
3.) All known published speculations on the effect of CO2 on temperature are based on the false assumption, as proven by # 2 above, that there is a measurable effect of the change in atmospheric concentration of CO2 on the temperature of the atmosphere.
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After only 3 weeks at his new job, fellow Swedish Scientists harassed Dr. Bengtsson into resigning from a prestigious think-tank on climate change.
It is Scientists such as Dr. Lennart Bengtsson who are willing to oppose the peer pressure of emotion-based politics, and stand, resolute, for what can be proven by fact-based Science.
Such men inspire other Scientists to continue the never ending search for Truth, regardless of the severity of peer-pressure inquisition at the time.
As we look to our own US Society, now in the watershed battle between the adherents of the original, empirical-based, US Constitution, and the proponents of emotion-based Socialism, let us pause now and then to refresh our courage by remembering the bravery of men such as true Scientist Dr. Lennart Bengtsson.
We need to use Mountain Man’s term; Gore-Bull Warming!