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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts
mdsolar (1045926) writes "The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported Monday. The finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable. The rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis."
Fuck all this Prius hippie shit. I'm buying a Hummer.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
NYC, the new Venice!
California should build MASSIVE quantities of desalanization plants along the coast. So that we can keep the oceans properly salined. While extract massive amounts of water to turn the entire southwest into a lush green sub-tropic region, and keep sea levels in check. Start now!!!
it can be somebody else's problem!
(I stole the baby boomers generation playbook)
Not so much the baby boomers as much as the neo-cons playbook. They are very different.
This is happening.
No, it's not. It's always GOING to happen *at some point*.
The same way that nuclear fusion is always GOING to be happening at some point.
The same way that the world is always GOING to be ending soon in every cult.
The same way that Jesus is always GOING to be coming someday.
The same way they by the time these predictions come due, everyone is GOING to have long forgotten them and moved on to the next environmental-disaster-thats-going-to-kill-us-all-this-time.
Chicken....Little.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Ah, nothing like quoting an anti-AGW blog as if it were the equivalent of a published article.
Tell me, do you get your biology information from Answers in Genesis as well?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yeah! Just like we adapted when the dinosaurs died out and we could no longer ride them.
xkcd is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
I have never even seen Antarctica, and I don't recall anyone talking about it twenty years ago. If 97% of geographers say Antarctica exists, I'd just like to point out that I've driven 50 miles in every direction but up and haven't seen no sign at all. And I'm pretty sure that my brother's boss once heard that geographers are telling us about this mythical Antarctica to take money from people like me and give it to themselves.
No continent I've ever seen is going to make me worry about sea-level rise, so keep yer commeenistic plots off of Slashdot.
So it's an accurate model of policy making, then? Campaign contributions make for wonderful scalpels.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.