Posted on 11/08/2013 6:40:54 AM PST by oxcart
Explore the world’s new coastlines if sea level rises 216 feet.
The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas.
There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.
What if all the water drained out a big hole? Or if the Unicorns revolted?
We need to stop adding carbon to the atmosphere immediately! Quick, everyone hold your breath! After all, all of the current ice MIGHT melt iin 5,000 years if we don’t hold our breath now!
I’m old enough to remember when National Geographic wasn’t a joke.
Sea ice is floating ice. If it were to melt, it would make not one bit if difference in water levels anywhere.....
I've yet to see a full glass of ice water overflow once the ice melted.....
“referred to “braying hounds”, evidently not knowing that donkeys bray, dogs bay.”
Thank you for this clarification. I am a new adoptor of a Coon Hound and have been saying braying....I am so ignorant of this breed, but Buford is teaching me...
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Well, yes. The end result is the same though. We all get screwed.
I cancelled my subscription years ago.
If I had a million dollars I'd be rich.
Not these days
I guess that depends on ones preferred lifestyle. I have considerably less and still have a comfortable life.
Would that be The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow? No, I think that had the manbear-pig in it.
As to your example of the glass of ice water - that's not quite so. You have assumed that the water displaced by the ice would remain at or close to zero Celsius. Water at 8 Celsius has roughly the same density as water at zero Celsius. Because H2O is densest at 3.98 Celsius, if global ocean temperatures were to rise pro rata sufficient to melt all the polar sea ice the volume occupied by the present mass of the oceans would increase.( Ignoring evaporation which in practice one would not be able to do)
Also the sea ice melting would reduce the overall albedo of the polar ice caps further increasing the overall tempreatures of the oceans.
I see Bloomberg as fielding a carbon-free fleet of gondolas in Venice-on-Hudson.
The seas rise 2 mm a year. The horror.
I think that is an insult to science fiction, it is more like speculative fantasy (emphasis on fantasy!)
Obama grasps for climate legacy as second-term agenda crumbles
Global Warming on Free Republic
I don’t disparage people here for misuse of words, I do my own share of screwing up but somebody writing for an international, prestigious, publication should know better, especially when they are put forth as, “experts” in the particular field they are writing about.
What’s going to happen if Unicorns eat all the crops?
And this is a bad thing?
The heat and humidity of the early Eocene epoch made it a heavenly time for dense jungles and rainforests, which stretched almost to the North and South Poles (The coast of Antarctica was lined with tropical rainforests about 50 million years ago!) Later in the Eocene, global cooling produced a dramatic change: the jungles of the northern hemisphere gradually disappeared, to be replaced by deciduous forests that could better cope with seasonal temperature swings. One important development had only just begun: the earliest grasses evolved during the late Eocene epoch, but didn't spread worldwide (providing sustenance for horses and ruminants) until millions of years later. Prehistoric Life During the Eocene Epoch
They say NY and Washington will drown and that’s supposed to make us NOT want GW? OTOH, some of the statist misfits might escape and pollute the rest of the country....
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