Posted on 12/16/2021 7:27:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
how much of this ice shelf is anchored on land ?
how much is floating ?...with its ice melt offsetting any water level increase like an ice cube in water. See water displacement research.
IF this ice shelf was ALL on land, AND was the size of florida, the affect on ocean levels would approximate the affect of the period at the end of this sentence in relationship to the length of this sentence .
Look at a world map. Florida is but a blip compared to our oceans.
The operative word is “could”. A lot of things “could” happen, but don’t.
My Tennessee Possum Holler International Sea Port needs water.
Could. Might.
Pseudoscience.
Awesome. Here is hoping Obama’s beachfront home is flooded.
Well that was 90 million years ago give or take the odd Era.
IF the “ice shelf” was submerged to begin with, then “breaking off” wouldn’t raise the sea a millimeter ... ever see a full glass with ice cubes sticking up overflow when the ice cubes melted?
10 foot sea level rise. Has anybody bothered to calculate the volume and weight of such an unfathomable amount of water world wide?
A series of scientific studies of Thwaites in recent years has shown the enormous glacier is melting more quickly and in ways scientists never expected.
Melting in ways scientists never expected? If it's melting it's melting. In what way is that never expected?!
and could not
From Wiki:
“ In 2020, scientists discovered warm water underneath the glacier for the first time.
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In January 2019, NASA discovered an underwater cavity underneath the glacier, with an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. The cavity formed mostly in the previous three years and is nearly a thousand feet tall, likely speeding up the glacier’s decay. “
Sort of sounds like this is a case of global warming via a volcanic hot spot rather than Gorebull Warming.
We’ll watch to see how many liberals sell their ocean front properties...
...I’ll wait.
The world’s oceans cover approximately 139.38 million square miles. To increase the volume of water in the oceans by 2 feet, this glacier/ice capo would need to contain approximately 58,129,943,224,320,000 gallons of water
I get the total salt water area of the earth is 135 million sq miles. The area of Florida is 65 thousand sq miles. If the glacier is completely on land now and 1000ft tall when it melts sea level would rise by 6 inches.for two feet it would need to be 4000 feet tall. And it would half to melt in the next ten years,on a continent where the average temperature is well below freezing.
Antarctic ice sheet could expand in the next decade. That is just as accurate.
Thwaites Glacier is underlain with significant geothermal activity. It is geothermal heat which is causing it to thaw. Any competent researcher who is interested in Thwaites already knows this. The article is purposely misleading and omitting critical information.
It could. It might. Maybe it will. Perhaps. Possibly.
Did did dit dit... this just in “meting miles thick glaciers could cause massive lakes in the northeast USA causing g land loss for anyone living In The area.
How many decades have they been screaming about the ice shelf now? If it ever eventually happens, then it happens. Adapt! Even if we stopped co2 production by 100%, it will do nothing to alter th3 course of nature no more so than the miles thick glaciers covering eastern USA could have been stopped.
What caused th3 miles thick glaciers to melt? Dino farts?
Does that mean my house (15 feet above sea level at the street and 21 at the door) will be ocean front property soon? Bonus!
That was a very funny movie, but absolutely hated the asinine “man evil, nature is god” mantra of the movie
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