Trump eliminates Obama-era climate policies

[DennisPTate]

The first question of climate change on planet Earth:

Why does one polar circle, the Antarctic, have 9+ times the ice of the other, the Arctic?




run away, science really isn't a good place to start tossing cards...

One part of the answer would have to do with the fact that most of the Antarctic ice is sitting on bedrock or at least on soil like the ice on Greenland. The ice in most of the Arctic is floating in the ocean and is thus extremely susceptible to breaking up and at least partly melting. I suspect that the ice on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is more vulnerable, like most of the ice in the Arctic, due to it having its foundation below sea level.

 

[Hafar1014]

Those climate policies were wrecking the economy

 

[tahuyaman]

It's an incredibly stupid idea.

He is trading short term gains for long tern tragedies.

Dooming tens of thousands of people to early deaths.

Destroying wildlife habitats and biodiversity.

And eventually costing every American more instead of less.

But hey, it does give the billionaires more pocket money so it's all good, right?

There’s no long term danger nor are tens of thousands of people going to die an early death. Actually technology has cause a huge decline in deaths relates to climate issues.

There’s no render to wildlife habitat. Man and nature can coexist.

 

[EMH]

The ice in most of the Arctic is floating in the ocean

Earth Ice =

Antarctica 90%
Greenland 7%
Ellesmere 0.3%

that leaves 2.7% for mountains and sea ice. If sea ice melts, there is no sea level rise. Nothing to worry about

One part of the answer would have to do with the fact that most of the Antarctic ice is sitting on bedrock or at least on soil like the ice on Greenland. The ice in most of the Arctic is floating in the ocean and is thus extremely susceptible to breaking up and at least partly melting. I suspect that the ice on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is more vulnerable, like most of the ice in the Arctic, due to it having its foundation below sea level.

Ice ages DIG all the way down to bedrock. There hasn't been any "soil" under Antarctic Ice for 30+ million years.

These are two sea level maps with the ice removed and keeping the current sea level....



Remember the Greenland ice age only got to Southern Tip in the past 600 years, which is why it is not yet "dug out."

This one is great because it shows WHERE Antarctica and South America broke apart roughly 20 million years ago...