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Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought

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On 9/18/15 4:58 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> OK shit head, explain how Antarctic land ice is melting while Antarctic
> sea ice is expanding?

   I got a better idea -- the jimp read the linked article:

   Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/melting-antarctica-could-drown-coasts-much-sooner-than-you-thought/

 > Seas could rise as fast as three centimeters a year if fossil fuel
 > consumption continues at its present rate. Such increases would
 > amount to ten times the current rise of roughly three millimeters
 > annually. But Antarctica's vast ice sheets may substantially melt and
 > accelerate the rise of seawaters should the burning of fossil fuel
 > continue unabated, according to new computer simulations of climate
 > change’s future impact.
 >
 > Scientists had previously thought that East Antarctica's massive ice
 > sheets were relatively safe, requiring thousands of years to pass
 > before warming global temperatures would begin to melt them. But the
 > new simulations, published in Science Advances on September 11,
 > suggest Antarctica's ice is much more vulnerable—and thus sea level
 > rise could be a lot worse.
 >
 > "Humanity can indeed melt all of Antarctica's ice, if we were to burn
 > all of the fossil fuels," says Ricarda Winkelmann, a physicist by
 > training who now works on computer models at the Potsdam Institute
 > for Climate Impact Research. "What we do today by emitting greenhouse
 > gases within just a few decades triggers changes that will be felt by
 > many, many generations to come."



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Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 16:20 -0500
  Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-17 21:43 +0000
  Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 13:35 -0700
  Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-09-18 13:36 -0700
    Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 15:47 -0500
      Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-18 21:09 +0000
        Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 16:33 -0500
          Re: Shit head can't read jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-18 21:58 +0000
            Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 18:02 -0500
              Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-18 23:21 +0000
              Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 23:01 -0400
          Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 23:09 -0400
    Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought Michael Strickland <michael06582@comcast.net> - 2015-09-19 01:54 -0700
      Re: Melting Antarctica Could Drown Coasts Much Sooner Than You Thought benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 14:15 -0400

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