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originally posted by: Teikiatsu
So if it's unavoidable they have a few options:
1) Prepare
2) Deal with it
If no amount of carbon credits will stop it, don't start using them. Use the money for other pursuits instead of corrupt government redistribution.
The sea level rises and falls over time. The history of mankind is the story of adapting to nature through technology, not pulling ourselves backwards.
Its also interesting that last years Antarctica's ice extent was largest on record
Antarctica is losing ice mass while gaining ice extent. This is a confusing point to some. There are a few keys that can help us understand what this means in the context of global warming.
Land ice is different than sea ice. Antarctica is losing ice as illustrated below in the ice mass chart from the GRACE satellite.
The Larsen C Ice Shelf—whose neighbours Larsen A and B, collapsed in 1995 and 2002—is thinning from both its surface and beneath. For years scientists were unable to determine whether it is warming air temperatures or warmer ocean currents that is causing the Antarctic Peninsula's floating ice shelves to lose volume and become more vulnerable to collapse. This new study takes an important step forward in assessing Antarctica's likely contribution to future sea-level rise.
The research team combined satellite data and eight radar surveys captured during a 15-year period from 1998-2012. They found that Larsen C Ice Shelf lost an average of 4 metres of ice, and had lowered by an average of one metre at the surface.
No one knows when we’ll have the first ice-free Arctic summer—extrapolating into the future can be difficult—but one thing we can bet on is that it’ll be a lot sooner than the year 2100 as originally predicted just a few years ago. It could be in as little as 30 years.
originally posted by: alienmma
a reply to: greencmp
Utterly refuted even though it's been confirmed by thousands of scientists...
Or are they all paid off by the evil socialists?!
You're so misinformed it's embarrassing. Log off.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
I don't really care what a medical doctor or an herbalist thinks about climate change.
originally posted by: Imagewerx
originally posted by: charolais
Maybe they are trying to get in the spotlight for more funding
I'm not expert but I think that a rise of 3 feet is a sh!tload of water and I'm not sure how to arctic/antarctic ice would do that much.
The Arctic wouldn't make any difference if it melted as it's just floating ice that displaces roughly the same amount of water it contains (in fact it's been said by some scientists the sea level might drop by a few centimetres if just the Arctic melted).Roughly 80% of the worlds ice is in the Antarctic (up to 3 miles thickness of ice on top of rock) and Greenland,they estimate a global sea level rise of up to 200 feet if all that lot melted.
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: lostbook
Can you or anyone provide the actual NASA link to the claim?
This maybe be a hype story and in 10 years when we only have less than a foot, I can foresee a lot of the naysayers use stories like this as 'proof' man made climate change is bogus.
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Teikiatsu
The only scientific opinions that I care about that are worth paying attention to are those that have a scientific background in climate research.
The signees from the petition project isn't impressive.
"The current list of 31,487 petition signers includes 9,029 PhD; 7,157 MS; 2,586 MD and DVM; and 12,715 BS or equivalent academic degrees. Most of the MD and DVM signers also have underlying degrees in basic science."[
I don't really care what a medical doctor or an herbalist thinks about climate change.