Melting Ice Caps -

[John R]

The times on Kurt's board are one hour fast. I left the house just before 7am.

silly rabbit. you're kidding right? you can change the times in the user cp.

jr

 

[Santiago]

You have got to be effing kidding me. That is scarier than anything that happened with Katrina.

Bush professes to be a devout Christian. Should he not be working to protect God's creation? Other members of the Christian right are at least giving this issue lip service. I have been reading more and more talk from scientists lately, and I have been getting very upset that none of our leaders has the balls to put together a rational plan.

By the time this becomes a movement, it will be too late. I don't normally applaud the Hollywood types for the way they make statements, but a bunch of them will be arriving in hybrid cars at tonight's Oscars and I think that's great. At least they're trying to do something. :clap_1:

This is not just about gas prices. It is about global warming on one hand. On the other hand you have talk about "peak oil" and the way our economy will contract as soon as our supplies begin to decrease. Not good for Republicans. Not good for Democrats. Not good for anyone.

And they will be leaving on private jets.

 

[Smiling JOe]

silly rabbit. you're kidding right? you can change the times in the user cp.

jr

I have mine set for central time, yet it shows up as eastern time.

 

[beachkids]

And they will be leaving on private jets.

:clap_1:
And destroying the ozone
And causing the earth to warm
And causing the oceans to rise

Sell your 30A property now while you still can!

 

[30A Skunkape]

I still think we will be bobbing around in a rip current hanging on to a weathervane at Rosemary Beach looking upon high-risers on the 75th floor in Panama City as the Gods that they will be .

 

[Smiling JOe]

I still think we will be bobbing around in a rip current hanging on to a weathervane at Rosemary Beach looking upon high-risers on the 75th floor in Panama City as the Gods that they will be .

If we are bobbing around, how are the people on the 75th floors going to be gods? -- Unless the elevators work and they all enjoy scuba diving and don't mind fighting the fish for wet groceries.

If we get 200' rise in sea level, I am driving my little booty to the mountains, but not before I take some photos. -- now if I only had a camera that worked properly.

 

[AzStreak]

North Pole Meets South Pole: Earth Is Melting at Both Ends
Melting Ice Caps Could Spell Disaster for Coastal Cities
By BILL BLAKEMORE

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(March 2) - For the first time, scientists have confirmed Earth is melting at both ends, which could have disastrous effects for coastal cities and villages.


Antarctica has been called "a slumbering giant" by a climate scientist who predicts that if all the ice melted, sea levels would rise by 200 feet. Other scientists believe that such a thing won't happen, but new studies show that the slumbering giant has started to stir.


Melting at Both Ends


Recent studies have confirmed that the North Pole and the South Pole have started melting.


Experts have long predicted that global warming would start to melt Greenland's two-mile-thick ice sheet, but they also thought the more massive ice sheet covering Antarctica would increase in the 21st century.


It seems they were wrong.


Two new studies find that despite the increasing snowfall that comes with global warming as a result of the increased moisture in the air, Antarctica's ice sheets are losing far more than the snow is adding.


According to the National Academy of Sciences, Earth's surface temperature has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the last century, with accelerated warming during the last two decades. Most of the warming over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities through the buildup of greenhouse gases ? primarily carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Although the heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed, uncertainties exist about exactly how Earth's climate responds to them.

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The melting rate of Greenland glaciers has doubled since 1996. See images of global warming effects.

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"The warming ocean comes underneath the ice shelves and melts them from the bottom, and warmer air from the top melts them from the top," said NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally. "So they're thinning and eventually they get to a point where they go poof!"


Zwally explains that the ice shelves, which the Antarctic ice cap pushes out into the ocean, are responding more than they expected to Earth's warming air and water. If the melting speeds up to a rapid runaway process called a "collapse," coastal cities and villages could be in danger.


James Hansen, director of NASA's Earth Science Research, said that disaster could probably be avoided, but that it would require dramatically cutting emission outputs. If the proper actions aren't taken, Hansen said, the sea level could rise as much as 80 feet by the time today's children reach middle age.


"We now must choose between a serious problem that we can probably handle and, if we don't act soon, unmitigated disaster down the road," Hansen said.



"Based on the history of the Earth, if we can keep the warming less than 2 degrees Fahrenheit, I think we can avoid disastrous ice sheet collapse," Hansen said.


Hansen and other scientists point out that a rise of at least 1 degree Fahrenheit ? and another few feet of sea level ? seem virtually certain to happen because of the carbon that mankind has already put in the atmosphere.

OK here we are 4 years later and guess what!? There's MORE Sea Ice Extent at the North Pole than in 2005!!!

Don't believe little ole me... check it out yourself at: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

Thanks

 

[FoX]

OK here we are 4 years later and guess what!? There's MORE Sea Ice Extent at the North Pole than in 2005!!!

Don't believe little ole me... check it out yourself at: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

Thanks

Another climate post for you? Are you qualified to say that chart is statistically significant? Why are you here bringing up old climate threads? Are you spamming or trolling?