Antarctic ice close to tipping point

[del]

One gram is a minute portion of your body weight, so obviously one gram of Potassium Cynide cannot hurt you.

not as much as the 100+ kilos of stupid you're toting around.

Love you, too, Del.

i'm sorry, did i overestimate your weight?

 

[elvis]

One gram is a minute portion of your body weight, so obviously one gram of Potassium Cynide cannot hurt you.

yes Rocks--CO2 and Potassium Cyanide are the same thing.

Small, relitive, quantities can screw up very large complex systems. That was the point for you mentally challenged folks.

When I went to school, they had "Career Day". A millwright came in and told us about what his job entailed and the experience needed to become one. He told us if we wanted a job in that career, we should major in custodial arts.

 

[Old Rocks]

yes Rocks--CO2 and Potassium Cyanide are the same thing.

Small, relitive, quantities can screw up very large complex systems. That was the point for you mentally challenged folks.

When I went to school, they had "Career Day". A millwright came in and told us about what his job entailed and the experience needed to become one. He told us if we wanted a job in that career, we should major in custodial arts.

Hard to over estimate your stupidity.

 

[elvis]

Small, relitive, quantities can screw up very large complex systems. That was the point for you mentally challenged folks.

When I went to school, they had "Career Day". A millwright came in and told us about what his job entailed and the experience needed to become one. He told us if we wanted a job in that career, we should major in custodial arts.

Hard to over estimate your stupidity.

You mean overestimate? "over estimate" has no meaning. And you ripped on Bush for being a moron.

 

[Sinatra]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A large part of the ice covering West Antarctica could be lost if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase only slightly from today's levels and ocean temperatures continue to rise, a study released on Thursday says.

Another related study said if the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed and the East Antarctic ice sheet continued to melt at its marine margins, global sea level would rise seven meters from today's level.

Antarctica stores about 90 percent of the world's freshwater.

Both studies, published in the journal Nature, are a result of extensive drilling into the seafloor under the Ross Ice Shelf by a team of New Zealand, Italian, American and Germany scientists.

The floating ice shelf won't elevate sea levels if melts because it is already displacing water. The real threat comes when the ice sheet behind, which is below sea level, is exposed to the ocean.

The 50-plus core samples, down to 1.2 kilometers (0.7 mile), allowed the scientists to study how previous periods of rising carbon dioxide affected ocean temperatures, ice movements and sea levels.

Antarctic ice close to melting tipping point-study | Science | Reuters

I was watching Discovery or PBS last night and they were talking about Global Warming. In the north pole, GW is making it colder in some places and warmer in other places. Sometimes the babies are sitting in mud, sometimes ice.

I was also watching something about Yellowstone. What an amazing place. It can snow any month in Yellowstone. Did you know that? GW messes with that too.

But there are many different kinds of penguins. The emperor penguins are doing the best with the recent climate changes.

I got the feeling that we can't do anything for the Polar Bears or Penguins or Seals that live out there. Sometimes its going to be super cold so they can't get to the water, and sometimes its going to be too warm and they will drown.

There was a whole colony of baby penguins. Maybe 10,000 of them. If the ice melted before they got their full feathers, they would all die/drown.

Anyways, India, China, Europe, US, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Africa, imagine all the pollution we omit. Even if we can't stop GW from happening, at least we will have clean air if we go green.

And if it also stops radical climate change, or lessens the severity, then great.

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Was this supposed to be a serious post?

It reads more like satire.

My apologies if I am mistaken...