Bad News for Deniers: Sea levels surging in Antarctica (March, elect, single)

[T-310]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

I thought that this thread was about rising sea levels....Sea ice does not effect ocean levels.

"affect"

[sanspeur]

If you are taking the role of grammar police, get it right.

If you are talking about a result, then use the word "effect."

[T-310]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

If you are taking the role of grammar police, get it right.

If you are talking about a result, then use the word "effect."

Affect vs. Effect Grammar Rules

[sanspeur]

Antarctica is a key to sea level rise, which threatens coastal areas around the world.. It has enough ice to raise seas by 57 metres if it ever all melted, meaning that even a tiny thaw at the fringes is a concern. Antarctic ice shelf collapse blamed on warming air, not water - Technology & Science - CBC News

[sanspeur]

If you live in the US, try this handy map.... Surging Seas: Sea level rise analysis by Climate Central

[irspow]

Sea levels should be rising as the temperature increases as we are just leaving an ice age. As can be seen in the long-range history of the earth...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Sea_Level.png

[sanspeur]

Originally Posted by chicagogeorge

Yes, but do I have to start a new thread on Antarctica?




I'm not holding my breath.... Temps have been there done that and were both Antarctica and Greenland were "warmer" on multiple occassions over the last 10,000 years, and the ice sheets managed to survived.


Last 10,000 years







and Greenland has been a lot "warmer" (sill an ice box) than today



Ice Cores





Whatever.... Sea levels always change. We will have to adapt. It's not like it's in our control whether or not a tiny fraction of Antarctica's ice will melt

John Mclean? Do you seriously think I will accept his BS as truth? Climate misinformer: John McLean

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

If you live in the US, try this handy map.... Surging Seas: Sea level rise analysis by Climate Central

Why should we believe anything Climate Central has to say? They are, after all, funded by liberal and left sources, thus bringing their credibility into question.

[chuckmann]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

I thought that this thread was about rising sea levels....Sea ice does not effect ocean levels.

No, but LAND ice flowing into the sea DOES effect sea levels.

You can verify this by dropping a few ice cubes into a glass of water and observing what happens ...

[sanspeur]

Originally Posted by chuckmann

No, but LAND ice flowing into the sea DOES effect sea levels.

You can verify this by dropping a few ice cubes into a glass of water and observing what happens ...

Do you really think you have to explain this to me?

Ice shelves melt all the time, "calving" icebergs that, no matter how enormous, do not effect sea level. Because floating ice displaces the same volume of water as melted ice, iceberg that formed from floating ice on Antarctica's vast ice shelves add no volume to the ocean. The ice shelves in Antarctica prevent the land ice from calving into the ocean. The concern is that the ice shelves breaking up will allow the land bound glaciers access to the sea.