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Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.
LiveScience via Yahoo! News ^ | February 5, 2009 | Andrea Thompson

Posted on 02/05/2009 3:45:30 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What horseshit.


61 posted on 02/05/2009 5:27:07 PM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: 3niner
"it won't be happening for millions of years."

Bummer...

62 posted on 02/05/2009 5:47:59 PM PST by Czar ((Still Fed Up to the Teeth with Washington))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
These worries have been further fueled by a recent study in the journal Nature that indicates that more of the WAIS is warming that was previously thought.

That recent study was done with poor quality data. They also point out on climateaudit that the sensors measuring the supposed rise in temperature are buried under 5 or 10 feet of new snow every year.

63 posted on 02/05/2009 6:03:17 PM PST by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The writer fails to consider the qatarrah depression in Egypt that would receive an enormous amount of Med overflow. Once the flow into the depression, the seepage in the porous desert begins and the great Sahara rehydration then begins.

As the Atlantic level rises, there is an increase in flow through the Pillars of Hercules and the med

When adequately hydrated the great North African wheat producing regions will again provide cropland missongfor at least 500 years.


64 posted on 02/05/2009 6:11:10 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The original point of America was not to be Europe)
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To: nobama08

>>The headline makes it sound like that would be a bad thing.<<

Doesn’t sound very likely to happen, to me (in spite of the computer modeling assumptions), once we put things in context.

Suppose that 500,000 cubic miles of ice = 500,000 cubic miles of liquid water (which it doesn’t, since water expands as it freezes - hence, floating ice).

Several sources note that the oceans contain about 328,000,000 (328 million) cubic miles of water.

With a little math, we find that the ice in question is about 0.15% (1.52 x10EE-3) of the total water in the oceans (or something less, considering ice contracts in volume as it melts).

A pretty minor amount - about one ounce (2 tablespoons) of water in five gallons.

Not that flooding DC out would be all that bad, IMHO. This sounds more like an Augean Stable sort of task...


65 posted on 02/05/2009 6:39:47 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you intended to!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.

Blah Blah Blah

They are becoming so shrill that their nagging becomes just an uncomfortable background noise.

66 posted on 02/06/2009 4:18:35 PM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So what. Pork Floats.
67 posted on 02/06/2009 4:19:35 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has anyone asked these mo fo’s to prove it? If all it flooded was DC, I would be all for it.


68 posted on 02/06/2009 4:21:41 PM PST by dforest (life is now good again....he has been inaugurated)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Washington, D.C., and other coastal U.S. cities could find themselves under several more feet of water

And monkeys could fly out of my butt.

69 posted on 02/06/2009 4:22:55 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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70 posted on 02/08/2009 1:26:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (This election gave the drunks the keys to the liquor cabinet!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If these guys are trying to scare people to get more grant money - why not say “under a hundred feet of water” and really scare everyone? I mean, shake that tree...


71 posted on 02/08/2009 2:12:31 PM PST by GOPJ (What's caused 19 deaths, makes travel difficult, and won't melt til April? Global Warming.FR:Dentist)
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To: GOPJ

If I thought it would bury DC under water, I’d be out there with four space heaters and a blow torch.


72 posted on 02/08/2009 2:13:46 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“if warming temperatures destroy the West Antarctic Ice Sheet”

That is one big IF. Now we know from an earlier article posted today that heavy snows or very cold weather is also a sign of global warming. Which is it. What if all freshwater is deposited in Antarctica as snow and the rest of the inhabited earth winds up with no surface water.

I mean what if.

73 posted on 02/08/2009 2:32:13 PM PST by vets son
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I vote Yea!


74 posted on 02/08/2009 2:34:15 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cool! Since I live on one of the highest points in Alexandria, I’ll have lakeside property!


75 posted on 02/08/2009 2:37:51 PM PST by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What's different today is that melting of ice at both poles is occurring faster than what has naturally occurred in the past.

Is that so?

76 posted on 02/08/2009 2:46:21 PM PST by Fundamentally Fair (If Barack Obama needs more experience, I could give it too him. - "Golden Girl" Betty White)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Antarctic Meltdown Would Flood Washington, D.C.

Damnit, what did I do with the keys to my V8 truck? (As if that actually had any impact on it)

77 posted on 02/08/2009 3:17:26 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Washington, D.C., and other coastal U.S. cities could find themselves under several more feet of water than previously predicted if warming temperatures destroy the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a new study based on a model predicts.

Promise?

Time to crank up the heat.....

78 posted on 02/08/2009 4:16:28 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can bet your life its based on the fallacy exposed by NewsBusters here:

http://newsbusters.org/node/27972/print

The single news article revealing this error can be read here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4332784/Despite-the-hot-air-the-Antarctic-is-not-warming-up.html

I guess the rest will be extrapolated junk like this one.


79 posted on 02/08/2009 4:22:21 PM PST by Nipfan (The desire to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it - H L Mencken)
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To: metmom

Let it sink!


80 posted on 02/08/2009 4:24:33 PM PST by granite
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