Posted on 05/17/2015 3:55:42 PM PDT by PROCON
(CNN)—One of the last remaining sections of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf is dramatically weakening, according to a new NASA study.
The study predicts that what remains of the once-prominent ice shelf, a thick floating platform of ice, most likely will "disintegrate completely" before the end of this decade
Ice shelves are extensions of glaciers and function as barriers. Their disappearance means glaciers potentially will diminish more quickly, as well, increasing the pace at which global sea levels rise.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes, right, uh-huh, sure.
Since NO PREDICTIONS EVER by these "scientific" geniuses has occurred, I'm not holding my breath.
2020 is only 5 years away, will the oceans rise on Jan. 1st 2015? April? September?
You'll be wrong once again and we will point it out and you will ignore us and start in to a new false claim.
BTW NASA, I thought your primary mission is muslim outreach.
/s
Scare Factor 6.
NASA .. Now hiring.
Must be able to shovel BS.. Prodigiously.
Who is the fool that should be held responsible for this prediction when it doesn’t come to pass? There’s more ice now on Antarctica than ever before.
When they're not begging for rides from the russians to the space station.
Facts get in the way of leftist religion. Can’t let that happen! They gotta keep the money rolling in.
Floating ice adds nothing to sea level when it melts. When they talk about an increase in the speed of the melting of Antarctic glaciers they are talking plus or minus decades over a millennia or two. This is really a PR push ahead of Paris.
Nobody believes you anymore.
Don’t they ever listen to Yogi Berra: “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
In my opinion, it’s a journalistic FELONY to discuss ice in Antarctica without also detailing that the overall ice coverage there is currently at record highs, and also the indications that the melting that is discussed might be related to volcanic activity.
So if they want to go there fine.
Want to raise the stakes a little there NASA ?
How about if you are right we will give in to your carbon tax scheme...if you’re wrong, we execute all of you, and your entire families too.
That ought to give them pause...
You want to gamble on socialism...then let’s go ALL IN.
This comes to you through our department of truth via CNN
I call Bovine Scatology.
CC
As mentioned in the article Larsen B is ONLY 10,000 years old; Larson A was only 4,000 years. Kinda like the glaciers in Glacier National Park are only a few thousand years old... They come and go.
Riiiight...and the Arctic was going to be ice-free by 2000, remember?
If its an ice shelf its already on the water and won’t cause the sea level to rise.
Yup, wasn't that an algorbalism?
These people are so FOS. Just pay us money and we can make it go away...witch doctor BS.
Bush’s fault
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