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maryjane
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SEP 02, 09:51 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by cvxjet:
Most of Texas will be under water within 100-200 years....Sea level rise is accelerating (But NOT BECAUSE OF OIL!!!!!) |
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It will have to rise a hell of a lot. The average elevation in Texas is 1,700 ft above current sea level.
Only 17 other states have a higher average elevation.....
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cvxjet
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SEP 02, 10:01 PM
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I keep forgetting- I thought you had finally accepted that CLIMATE CHANGE was real- but you were running around screaming that the OIL INDUSTRY lords had nothing to do with it....Are you still buying the "No Climate Change" mythology pushed by the oil industry ten years ago?
Didn't Texas experience a sudden blizzard (Something about the power grid)....And most states are experiencing either droughts or floods......
So maybe, even if the ice caps melt, the sea level won't rise if it doesn't rain......That makes to-tal Zince!
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rinselberg
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SEP 03, 06:05 PM
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| quote | ]Originally posted by Raydar:
Must be why the Obamas (among others) are buying beach houses. Makes perfect sense to me.  |
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Deflection. Evasion. Diversion.
Have you heard of "Zombie Ice" before? I had not, myself.
https://youtu.be/DvtB8tIgAJ0
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maryjane
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SEP 03, 07:55 PM
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maryjane
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SEP 03, 11:30 PM
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rinselberg
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SEP 04, 11:56 AM
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Zombie Ice "coming to a coastline near you"
| quote | Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters)—more than twice as much as previously forecast—according to a study published Monday.
That’s because of something that could be called zombie ice. That’s doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is no longer getting replenished by parent glaciers now receiving less snow. Without replenishment, the doomed ice is melting from climate change and will inevitably raise seas, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. |
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| quote | | Although 10.6 inches may not sound like much, this would be over and above high tides and storms, making them even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge societal, economic and environmental impacts,” said Ellyn Enderlin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University, who wasn’t part of the study. |
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| quote | Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educated guess, it would probably be by the end of this century, or at least by 2150.
Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance. If Earth starts to undergo more years like 2012, Greenland melt could trigger 30 inches (78 centimeters) of sea level rise, he said. Those two years seem extreme now, but years that look normal now would have been extreme 50 years ago, he said. |
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"Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches"
Seth Borenstein for AP News; August 29, 2022.
https://apnews.com/article/...beaba05682352de8aa87
Thanks to "maryjane" for posting this article.
"Never let a crisis go to waste"[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 09-04-2022).]
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