gslack
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Not all of Antarctica is -40. The edges would melt first. A few degrees wouldn't melt the whole thing, but it WOULD significantly shrink the ice cap and cause rising sea levels. I feel that reality is something you don't have to offer. Rather you seem to run from it at every opportunity.
I like history. There was a show on one of the science channels about Pompei, the city, not the General, and the folks who died from the various plagues that issued from the volcano. One of the places that people died seeking refuge was right on the shore in man made stone enclosures that were a convenient place to wait for a boat.
Interestingly, they are still right on the shore after being dug out of the solidified ash. Go figure.
We know from AGW proponents that during the time of Global warming that the sea level has risen constantly but at varying rates. The rise each year has been between .5 and 1.8 mm. Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried about 2000 years ago.
Taking the low end estimate of sea level rise, we find that the sea level has risen by 1000 mm. Is that a full meter? A vertical rise of 1 meter in the sea level and yet the shore line is unmoved. Of course, the high end estimate makes a sea level rise of 3 and a half meters. Doesn't matter. The shore line still didn't move.
So, is the the ocean half empty or half full? Is this theory half baked or what?
Is Code really this ignorant? Or is he once again shilling for the energy companies?
There are areas of sea level that is declining in relationship to the nearest land in North America because of plate tectonics. There are other areas where the sea level far exceeds the average because of the subsidance, through compaction, of sediments, such as areas along the Gulf coast.
Over the whole world, we see an average of rise or decline in sea level by measuring the relationship to the nearest land. However, with the advent of satellites, all this has changed, and we can measure absolute sea level rise or decline over the whole world.
Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry / Sea level rise
Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry / Sea level rise
Sea level rise
One of the most significant potential impacts of climate change is sea level rise that may cause inundation of coastal areas and islands, shoreline erosion, and destruction of important ecosystems such as wetlands and mangroves. As global temperatures increase, sea level rises due to a thermal expansion of upper layers of the ocean and melting of glaciers and ice sheets.
The measurement of long-term changes in global mean sea level can provide an important corroboration of predictions by climate models of global warming. Satellite altimeter radar measurements can be combined with precisely known spacecraft orbits to measuring sea level on a global basis with unprecedented accuracy. A series of satellite missions that started with TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) in 1992 and continued with Jason-1 (2001) and Jason-2 (2008) estimate global mean sea level every 10 days with an uncertainty of 34 mm. This climate record has continued with Jason-2 beginning in mid-2008.
Jason-2, launched 20 June 2008, is a joint effort between NOAA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
The latest mean sea level time series and maps of regional sea level change can be found on this site.
Global mean sea level from TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, and Jason-2
Who the fuck are you calling ignorant you mindless hack??
You post crap you don't understand or even read non-stop and at every turn you are proven to be completely ignorant on it...
Your article you just cited for instance, says nothing to disprove anything code said.. If you follow the links to their animations in your link you see the levels change region to region day by day... You freaking ignorant lowlife propaganda pushing shameless hack...