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dschis1000 User ID: 77325790 United States 02/06/2019 07:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! I have to laugh when I see this only has a couple stars. The idiots are have to much blind idolatry for their Fuhrer to admit global warming is destroying the planet. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41693715 It's the volcanoes under Antarctica that's melting it. The ice is being melted from the bottom. It's space weather not us little humans. CO2 follows a global warming not the other way around. The atmosphere is being compressed due a thinning of the ionosphere. In addition, the north magnetic pole is split into two lobes with the lobe closer to Siberia. My guess is there was a Rossby wave disturbance. All of the other planets in solar system are showing signs of warming? Could it be a solar minimum like Dr Zharkova talks of? People like Dr Spenser have been talking about cooling for a while now. I think they may have a valid argument sorry about that I get too excited when the warmists get on here and start spouting. I mixed the Antarctica ice shelf melt and the polar vortex. |
Larry D. Croc User ID: 70736097 United States 02/06/2019 07:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! What would be interesting would be a sudden collapse of a big chunk of glacier into the ocean. THAT would potentially create a tsunami to end all tsunamis. "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it." Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan |
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Lacey Underall User ID: 76792534 United States 02/06/2019 07:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! The surface area of the earth's oceans is about 360 000 000 square kilometers or about 139 000 000 square miles. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72530568 To raise the ocean levels 2 feet would take 7.75 x 10^15 cubic feet of water or 5.8 x10^16 gallons. Sorry no, the numbers don't add up. All I heard was blahh...blahh...numbers...blah..numbers. There are 3 kinds of people in the world. Those who can do math...and those who can't. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73112757 United States 02/06/2019 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! I know that glaciers have retreated all over the world in the last 100 years but I have not seen any sea level rise. When Gore said 20 years ago that the coast lines of the world would be flooded by now it seems he was talking out his ass. |
Lacey Underall User ID: 76792534 United States 02/06/2019 08:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! I know that glaciers have retreated all over the world in the last 100 years but I have not seen any sea level rise. When Gore said 20 years ago that the coast lines of the world would be flooded by now it seems he was talking out his ass. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73112757 And those South Pacific islands they say are doomed because of rising sea levels, are probably actually sinking. It would be strange to have localized sea level rise. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77317392 United States 02/06/2019 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! No coincidence that the Pole is moving as well Thread: Earth’s magnetic pole is moving so fast scientists are struggling to keep up...what does this mean for the rest of us? I would say buckle up that is in part because of change of weight at the poles. |
lightyear User ID: 76514134 United States 02/06/2019 08:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! A meteorite will hit this planet and kill 99% of all life...This isnt a if...but a when..also the poles are shifting right now..this could cause the earth to stop spinning the way it is now..causing massive doom...also the sun will mostlikly flare out and kill us all too...so I guess my point is...whats your point? |
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FINGERPRINTS of the GODS User ID: 58686169 United States 02/06/2019 08:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! I wonder why then when my ice melts in my glass it doesn't rise any higher? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76781814 This is a glacier. It's on land and flowing into the ocean. But you're right that the melting Arctic icecap isn't going to directly affect sea levels. Well, it took a massive comet to raise sea level by 400 ft 12,900 years ago... Remember Arctic icecap used to extend way into northern part of USA which was 1-2 miles high... There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. |
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oniongrass User ID: 77265497 United States 02/06/2019 08:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! The cavity under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is about six miles long and 1,000 feet deep — representing the loss of 14 billion tons of ice. Quoting: Goofy for God It was discovered after an analysis of data collected by Italian and German satellites, as well as NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a program in which aircraft equipped with ice-penetrating radar fly over polar regions to study the terrain. [link to www.nbcnews.com (secure)] But maybe it's normal to have a large cavity under that ice. Or maybe it's normally just lower down and fills in that cavity. Why is it a problem that we've found a cavity? . DON'T VAX, PROPHYLAX! ____________ There is no anger in Me: If one offers Me thorns and thistles, I will march to battle against him, And set all of them on fire. But if he holds fast to My refuge, He makes Me his friend; He makes Me his friend. (Isaiah 27:4-5) |
oniongrass User ID: 77265497 United States 02/06/2019 08:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! I know that glaciers have retreated all over the world in the last 100 years but I have not seen any sea level rise. When Gore said 20 years ago that the coast lines of the world would be flooded by now it seems he was talking out his ass. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73112757 And those South Pacific islands they say are doomed because of rising sea levels, are probably actually sinking. It would be strange to have localized sea level rise. Yeah, the UN General Assembly is all over that. Every shithole island country gets one vote in the GA. USA also gets one vote. So they're always concerned about their particular little islands. Some new land was created by the volcano of the Big Island of Hawaii. Why don't they move there or to some other vacant land? The climate always changes, but who promised them that their fragile way of life will be totally undisturbed while we work 60 hour weeks and shiver in the winter to protect it? . DON'T VAX, PROPHYLAX! ____________ There is no anger in Me: If one offers Me thorns and thistles, I will march to battle against him, And set all of them on fire. But if he holds fast to My refuge, He makes Me his friend; He makes Me his friend. (Isaiah 27:4-5) |
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dschis1000 User ID: 77325790 United States 02/06/2019 08:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! National Snow and Ice Data Center Quoting: Luisport ‏ @NSIDC Seguir Seguir @NSIDC Mais If #Thwaites Glacier in #Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world. Researcher Ted Scambos comments: “It’s completely plausible. Thwaites has a really perfect storm going for it.” [link to twitter.com (secure)] LOL the time to move is now people Look if someone on Twitter told me the sky was blue I would have to go outside and look. Tow the damn thing to South Africa and/or Australia. They need the water quit whining. It's undersea volcanoes anyway. |
CW User ID: 72493973 United States 02/06/2019 08:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! Thwaites glacier is chump change though, compared to Greenland ice melt. Greenland is going NOW. Yes, it is THAT late. If the climate intervention stopped, there would've already been no sea ice in the Arctic ocean for @ least a few weeks of last year, sometime between Aug-Oct. Quite soon, these trolls, shills and ignorant morAns will be forced to awaken to their inevitable physical extinction. That should've ocurred by now, however, the populace as a whole is not @ all well-informed/aware of their surroundings(though they will claim to be)/deprogrammed. They were fed a bunch of BS, and they ate it up! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77351609 Portugal 02/07/2019 03:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! TOP STORYWednesday, February 6, 2019 A Huge Chasm has Opened Up Under Antarctica's Most Important--and Vulnerable--Glacier An enormous cavity two-thirds the area of Manhattan and nearly 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep has been discovered growing under West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Considered to be the world's most crucial glacier due to its sheer size and importance to the stability of the vast ice sheets that surround it, this vast cavern has been growing rapidly, with most of its volume having formed within the last three years, and its discovery underscores the vulnerability of Antarctica's massive ice sheets to a steadily warming planet. This gap between Thwaites Glacier and the supporting bedrock underneath was first detected by NASA's Operation IceBridge survey in 2010, but the sheer magnitude of what that cavity would come to represent wasn't realized by researchers at the time. A more complete picture of the situation underneath the glacier has been constructed using data from more sophisticated satellites that have been brought online since then. "We have suspected for years that Thwaites was not tightly attached to the bedrock beneath it," explains study co-author Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Thanks to a new generation of satellites, we can finally see the detail." Roughly the size of Florida, meltwater from Thwaites Glacier currently contributes to about four percent of sea level rise, but it holds enough ice to raise ocean levels by a little over 2 feet (65 centimeters) if it were to melt entirely. Thwaites also supports a number of neighboring glaciers that would represent an additional 8 feet (2.4 meters) of sea level rise--glaciers that would be under an increased threat of collapse if Thwaites itself were to slide off into the ocean. And when it comes to how glaciers melt, the maxim of 'as above, so below' proves to be no less true: "[The size of] a cavity under a glacier plays an important role in melting," warns the study's lead author, Pietro Milillo, also with JPL. "As more heat and water get under the glacier, it melts faster," and the cavern under the Thwaites Glacier is no exception. The cavern is large enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, a number that is all the more alarming considering that this volume of ice has melted from a single glacier over the span of only three years. It was also revealed last summer that Antarctica's ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were the decade before, with the Thwaites Glacier being among the two hardest-hit ice sheets on the continent. Image Credit: Frozen icebergs near Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica seen during the Nov. 7, 2014, IceBridge mission. Credit: NASA / Jim Yungel News Source: phys.org |
oasisjack User ID: 76973432 United States 02/07/2019 06:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: If Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica collapses, sea levels could rise by two feet – flooding coastal cities around the world!!! The surface area of the earth's oceans is about 360 000 000 square kilometers or about 139 000 000 square miles. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72530568 To raise the ocean levels 2 feet would take 7.75 x 10^15 cubic feet of water or 5.8 x10^16 gallons. Sorry no, the numbers don't add up. Shhhh, don’t use facts in emotion based arguments. The SJW crowd will trigger. im the new cancer. |
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