Warning that Antarctic ice sheet a 'sleeping giant'
March 11, 2016
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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A map of West Antarctica. Credit: Wikipedia
New research has led to a warning from a leading Antarctic expert that the world is on track for massive sea level rises resulting from the melting of an ice sheet.
The research, involving Victoria University of Wellington scientists, has revealed that if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue increasing as predicted, the giant East Antarctic ice sheet will melt.
"Our study shows that this ice sheet becomes unstable and melts if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reach 600 parts per million—levels which may be reached by the end of the century if emissions reductions targets agreed to recently in Paris are not met," says Professor Tim Naish, Director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre.
"If the Antarctic ice sheet completely melted, global sea level would rise about 60 metres. It's a sleeping giant."
The research, published this week in prestigious international journal Science, documents the growth of the first continent-wide ice sheet on Antarctica 34 million years ago.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-antarctic-ice-sheet-giant.html#jCp
Well outside your comfort zone.Thanks
Have to remember where I am.
LolWell outside your comfort zone.
Yeah - you are in a science forum where opinion without science papers to back it is worth squat.
Still no science backed explanation as the cause of these observations I see.
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No surprise there.
Meanwhile at time still far far away....
600 ppm not all that far away given what we are putting out.....
Great questions!
I don't believe human beings living their lives in normal ways hurts anything. The warmist believes humans can change the climate even though they can't tell us what the weather will be tomorrow yet their models tell us what its going to be 30 years from now. Its laughable.
I'll take this opportunity to address all the insults too. Posters on here constantly talk about people like me getting educated to the hoax of AGW, granted I certainly don't know as much as you fine fellas about the science of AWG, but there are plenty of scientist who disagree with you.
Certainly capitalism is under attack from this hoax, this whole hoax can be summed up in one word, money. Most of you posting here are probably on the take just as the next corrupt scientist. And yes, I'm not changing my lifestyle for any hoax, if you believe this crap so much, you need to do much more to lessen your own carbon footprint, that way they'll be more carbon for me to burn at a cheaper price.
Which is why most of the old communist are with you, its a great way to seize power.
It you want to talk about the economics of climate change mitigation, logger, then you should learn about the economics of climate change mitigationBusiness and corporations have been completely abused trying to live up to the regulations, many were sorely needed, many have put people out of business, not that that matters to you.![]()
Climate economics research shows that in reality, we are harming the economy by failing to implement CO2 limits.
Maybe you should ask the dodo or passenger pigeon whether this is true, logger - whoops you cannotI don't believe human beings living their lives in normal ways hurts anything.
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Great questions!
I don't believe human beings living their lives in normal ways hurts anything. The warmist believes humans can change the climate even though they can't tell us what the weather will be tomorrow yet their models tell us what its going to be 30 years from now. Its laughable.
though they can't tell us what the weather will be tomorrow yet their models tell us what its going to be 30 years from now. Its laughable
Record leap in carbon dioxide seen in 2015 - Phys.org
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4 days ago - March 10, 2016 ... "The annual growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide... jumped by 3.05 parts per million during 2015, the largest ...
Global greenhouse-gas emissions set to fall in 2015 - Nature
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Dec 7, 2015 - Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and industry are on track to level off or perhaps even dip slightly this year,
Thanks
Have to remember where I am.
Originally Posted by macdoc View Post
600 ppm not all that far away given what we are putting out.....
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Many suggest the end of century ratio will be in the range of 700-1200ppm Depending upon how the near surface sinks respond
AFAIK it's to do with were the water has moved from. The equatorial band is the primary source of oceanic CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. The water moved by the El Nino is relatively warm and CO2 rich and is forced to upwell in areas that are relatively poorer. This causes more CO2 to be emitted during the El Nino phase. An old paper here (Feely et al 1999)Why would El Nino affect CO2 release - the heat is emerging from the ocean into the atmosphere so actually cooling the ocean ....= more CO2 capacity.
That said ...the surface temps in the Pacific are still insane so perhaps it is a timing issue....I'm not sure how quickly CO2 disperses globally ....given the monitoring station is in the Pacific.
First, the whole subject has been politicized and of course you warmists are LOSING the public opinion BADLY!!!
February 2016 was not only the warmest month ever measured globally, at 1.35 degrees Celsius above the long-term average—it was more than 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than the previously most unusually warm month ever measured: January 2016
That means February 2016 was the first month in history that global average temperatures passed the 1.5 degree Celsius mark