Note that they keep talking about WEST Antarctica? Shouldn't it be ALL of Antarctica? What's so different about WEST Antarctica?
Note which side of Antarctica has all the volcanoes (red dots)?
Posted on 02/28/2015 10:59:22 PM PST by smokingfrog
CAPE LEGOUPIL, Antarctica (AP) - From the ground of this extreme northern part of Antarctica, a spectacular white and blinding ice seemingly extends forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging below to reshape Earth.
Water is eating away at the Antarctic ice, melting it where it hits the oceans. As the ice sheets slowly thaw, water pours into the sea, 130 billion tons of ice (118 billion metric tons) per year for the past decade, according to NASA satellite calculations. That's enough ice melt to fill more than 1.3 million Olympic swimming pools. And the melting is accelerating.
In the worst case scenario, Antarctica's melt could push sea levels up 10 feet (3.3 meters) worldwide in a century or two, recurving heavily populated coastlines.
At its current rate, the rise from Antarctica would only lift the world's oceans a barely noticeable one-third of a millimeter a year.
But if all the West Antarctic ice sheet that's connected to water melts unstoppably, as several experts predict, there won't be time to prepare.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsfa.com ...
Just to make a point if one assumes that is correct after 100 years the oceans will rise a staggering 1.3 inches.
Wake me up when the first seaside buildings become permanently flooded.
I live in Florida. Go anywhere in Florida and dig down a couple feet and you will find......limestone and fossils from sea creatures.
Because Florida used to be under water.
Go down about 80 feet and you can find deer hoof prints in the limestone. Been there and seen them first hand. I just don’t know how you teach a deer to scuba dive so I’m guessing the water level shifted.
I call BS. This is like the like the polar bear shot on the iceberg proving they were dying off.
NASA is a political organization and has long since squandered any scientific credibility. This is little more than a fart in a global warming snowstorm
The earth has been freezing and thawing for 4.3 billion years.
One of the pictures in the article if of “Deception Island”.
And my BS mete just went off the scale right there... Seriously, if I had a dollar for every time the "experts" we're wrong, I'd own Al Gore by now.
Because Florida used to be under water.
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As was most States along the Gulf Coast.
East and Central Texas was undersea. When a Boy Scout we used to hike to a location known as Sharks’ Tooth, near a manmade lake just West of Dallas. ...We could dig through the soft soil there and find many shark teeth. ....Many dinosuar fossils and footprints in stone river beds throughout, also. ....Glen Rose TX has a good museum that has maps showing the sea coverage in ancient TX.
Oh, no. We’re domed!
“...highlight the ice cube in the glass of water with a countdown to earth flooding clock.”
1.) There is NO such thing as man made global warming.
2.) We cannot stop the next ice age or keep the earth IN an ice age - we can’t control the weather, much less the climate.
With that said, your theory only applies to the Arctic (where the ice is floating) not the Antarctic which is a large enough land mass as to be called a continent.
The ice in Antarctica is several miles thick in most places. Scientists have taken many core samples - all the way to terra firma - and have found grass, trees and other green matter.
The ice was not there once. It’s not humanity’s fault there IS ice any more than it’s humanity’s fault there was NOT ice at one time.
The ice will melt someday - it is 100% proven that it was not there at one time - and the sea levels will rise.
Additionally, another ice age will surely come to our planet, and the sea levels will lower again.
I just don’t need my taxes - or yours - raised to ‘stop’ what cannot be called anything other than a cycle of nature.
Have a wonderful day!
P.S. ditch the ice glass theory during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter months. It is a perfect argument for our summer months when the Arctic ice is melting.
This was on the same page as the posted article..... http://www.betterbythemin.com/health/see-why-diet-compound-got-locked-gnc-after-just-3-days?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_term=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_content=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED
At its current rate, the rise from Antarctica would only lift the world’s oceans a barely noticeable one-third of a millimeter a year.
... in other words, about 1/64”. So in a century, if true, it would be 1 1/2”. And you can bet the climate alarmists have not calculated the additional cooling effect of adding that much water to the Earth’s oceans.
Climate alarmists, have learned to behave like whining begging dogs looking for table scraps from government (i.e. taxpayer) funded “research” grants. The louder they whine, the more money they get.
Corrupt politicians feed this perversion of science by funding the “research”, knowing that these same funded groups will then kick back money to their election campaigns.
It’s a vicious cycle that entrenches politicians in power and pervert science to political ends.
Note that they keep talking about WEST Antarctica? Shouldn't it be ALL of Antarctica? What's so different about WEST Antarctica?
Note which side of Antarctica has all the volcanoes (red dots)?
About all I see anymore with articles like this.
“Go down about 80 feet and you can find deer hoof prints in the limestone. Been there and seen them first hand. I just don’t know how you teach a deer to scuba dive so I’m guessing the water level shifted.”
I have a bowling ball sized lava rock - from a volcanic eruption. My Brother In Law gave it to me from an excavation at a job site.
The construction project was an expansion of the city’s water treatment facility and required digging more than 30 feet down (we don’t do skyscrapers here in rural Montana so 30’ is a very unusual depth to dig).
It’s clear that this pocked-marked lava stone came from the Yellowstone Caldera which will blow again someday.
Reading this thread could make you want to move away from the shoreline, but I can assure you that living in the mountains can be just as ‘dangerous!’
Posted exactly one month early for tripe tales of this sort.
I’m a good 750 feet above sea level...so, I’m good.
This means we’re all gonna die AGAIN, right?
So, which ones are THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.
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