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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."
what should we do with all the fools? Remember in the 70s we were entering an ice age.
Not sure why you are bringing up those tired global warming talking points since (as the article notes) the melting has nothing to do with global warming, but from warmer currents about which we can do nothing.
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FTFY
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You mean like maybe north of Canada or in the Bering Sea where there is so much ice the last few years that boats can't follow their normal schedules and are shut down for months at a time because of the ice? But I never see an alarming article about MORE ice. Always less.
The 70's are calling... Back then the global environmental disaster of the day was "Global Cooling". Seems these things are kind of cyclic, but the real issue is using the spreading of FUD for control and profit. Environmentalists are not about caring for the earth, they are about getting power and using it for profit. The political aspect of this cannot be underestimated. When a politician tells you he cares about some issue, what he's usually saying is that he wants people who care about the issue to vote for him/her.
That is not to say the earth isn't warming up. Evidence is pretty clear that it is. The real question though is if the activities of man are primarily responsible or if we are just seeing natural climate cycles like the ones that gave us the ice age and such.
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You mostly need to use science to see it, unless you live in unfortunate areas like the arctic. It still happens gradually enough that you can conveniently forget that things were ever different if you go by your trusty, truthy gut feeling.
Ah. You mean like the overall long-term increase in Antarctic ice mass, despite breakups in the Western sheet? The gradual, long-term non-warming that has occurred over the last 15-17 years, depending on who you ask?
Just curious. I agree: science is a wonderful thing. You can appear to "prove" almost anything you want if you restrict your study to relatively isolated phenomena, and ignore the bigger picture.
I think the question is if global warming is essentially man made or mainly just the natural cycle of things. IMHO this is an open question not settled science.
What evidence do I have? Well, the lack of the previously accepted brew-ha-ha from the previous predictions not coming true, at least not with the dire consequences that where used to scare us before. I wasn't born yesterday nor was it 100 years ago, but if you choose to cry wolf and are wrong too often, I get tired of being whipped into a frenzy and start ignoring you. Remember Al Gore? He made some seriously dire claims, of which how many where correct? I dare say some where exaggerations and most where just plane false. So why did he make the movie? To make money, both though the movie as well as by inventing a new market for "Carbon Credits" where he was positioned to be in on the ground floor. There are more examples...
I personally don't believe they understand what exactly is happening so they cannot predict through their models. They invent these scenarios using their models and in order to get research funding they hype the results. In reality, they don't know, and we end up surprised that the model was wrong. So, I've been around this block a few times, I'm not falling for the chicken little FUD campaign about global warming/climate change or what ever the name du jour is.
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