Dubya
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- Dec 29, 2012
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In response to the barrage of recent posts by a certain member of this board, the vast majority of which reflect, and discuss nothing more than the output of computer models, I am going to post some recently published papers based on actual observation. The contrast is remarkable.
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This paper, recently published in the Journal of Climate examined the world wide sea level change over the period of the 20th century and found that seal level rise was consistent over the 20th century with little if any acceleration in the rate of rise and that glacier mass lost was not less during the first half of the 20th century than during the second half.
I think the graft is fairly accurate, but it's the past. What happens when I use the most accurate information from satellites today? I get this:
Notice the data is so sensitive that it can pick up ENSO patterns! I'm not a glaciologist, but I have spent times looking at the data. People think ice is solid, but just like glass it isn't. If you find old glass, it actually flows, according to gravity. Ice flows many times faster and we have 4 remaining ice sheets on this planet, unless you want to count the remnants of the past. Greenland is the one to worry about in the near future and the western Antacrtic is the next. These ice sheets have a hugh amount of water stored. The ice is buttressed, but if you melt the buttress it's going to flow to the ocean. The amount of water is enough to destroy every city on the coasts of the world.
Yes, it isn't going to happen in my lifetime, but why would I want to leave destruction to my children or their children?
Think about it for a second. It isn't about me.