Posted on 10/01/2009 9:09:02 PM PDT by JmyBryan
"has-been drips under pressure", Boys'Life c. 1959.
I was actually sincere about that comment. As I wrote, too many of us are too easily scared. ...agreed on the rest of your comment. I live in weather that would scare most people more than global warming (about eight months of winter winds often to around 80 mph, occasional gust over 100, snow drifts several feet deep, way off of the power grid, and no nearby services).
The extra precipitation from monsoons the past couple of summers have been nice, too—much better than the 12 inches or so per year that we were getting before.
Sea levels rise when the earth warms...and fall when the earth cools. It has to do with the amount of fresh water contained at the poles in the form of ice. When the earth warms, there is less ice...sea levels rise. When it cools...as it did during the last ice age...sea levels drop because a lot of the water that was in the ocean gets locked up at the poles in the form of ice. Hence the land bridge that existed between Asia and North America during the last ice age. It went under water when the earth warmed.
Sea levels have been seen in the past geological record to rise and fall by 46' in a matter of a millennium. So...the globull warming nuts are just following the predicted path of sea level rise if the earth warms by how much they think it will...
Which it won't, cause it ain't.
“There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions.”
So, does this mean we can just skip that whole “cap and trade” thing, since it won’t fix the problem anyway?
Bass fishing from the top of the Sears tower. Cool. Does global warming come with tartar sauce?
Horse$hit.
“For some lard masses...”
I assume you’re referring to these so-called scientists. I like it.
If it’s unstoppable, why worry about it?
Adapt and overcome.
For “scientists”, they sure have a pi$$-poor grasp of logic.
Frozen water displaces only the volume of its liquid form. As the freezing expands the molecules, the ice floats. The submerged volume of the ice should be equal to the volume of water that made up the ice.
Water always finds its own level.
It turns out they may have been right, except for the wrong reasons.
Totally. I mean, what kind of idiot are you if you can't follow the simple data that clearly shows that CO2 levels rise AFTER the temperature rises. Increased CO2 is an effect, not a cause.
OK. Right. If this is true what aren’t we building dikes around all the coastal cities?
Oh yeah, maybe its because no one is scared from the so called “danger”
I do believe it would be less volume due to the fact that water expands when it freezes. It is one of the few things in nature that does that.
I read *somewhere* that the measurement instruments are using the coastline as a reference. In SE Asia, the weight of the high-rise buildings is compressing the coastline and causing the water level to rise.
When an engineer sees an unusual result coming from an instrument, we usually suspect that the instrument is faulty or some wires are loose.
When a scientist sees the same thing, they think they have made a discovery worthy of a paper!
Why is Antarctica considered a continent and the arctic is not?
Answer, the artic is in fact made of floating ice, the Antarctica continent is a land mass. The ice contained in the Antarctica continental land mass is not being supported by water, it is not floating. If it melts it would be the same as the melting of any land based glacier. The melted ice would add it's volume to the ocean level, and there is a whole bunch of ice on the Antarctica land mass.
That being said, there isn't a damn thing that humans can do to stop, or start, the process. We can do things to adapt to the situation, just as we will have to adapt to a coming ice age. That is why we are at the top of the food chain, we adapt. Other species rely on 'evolution' to survive. Humans ADAPT.
Thanks.
“The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable,”
Kinda like an oil tanker.
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