Faster Sea Rise

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

But—why’s the sea so warm?

—A Green Sea Turtle

[jcb570]

get a real job like you cant stop the ice from melting and govt are going to keep growing and burning and making greenhousegases would you have all the people of the wolld stand still and hold there breath becouse if this manmade that is what it would take and stoping any greenhousegases that is coming out of the earth as well 6bill-people just breathing has got to stop.understand this its ice its melting we will move to high ground find out what to do with all this water Chicken little thank u

[harrynicholas]

Doesn't ice take up more space than water? Aren't sea levels gonna lower?

[goog2k]

ARCTIC SUMMER SEA ICE MASS DOWN 62%+

Arctic summer sea ice surface area has dropped 36% from 8 million sqkm to 5.1 million sqkm since 1980.

Search:

Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth - Arctic Ice

Arctic ice THICKNESS has dropped 42% in just the last 5 years by satellite measurements.

Search:

New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

That's OVER a 62% LOSS in arctic sea ice MASS.

Search:

"Lasers From Space Show Thinning Of Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheets"

[Javamann1]

How many SUV,s were on this planet nine thousand years ago?

[pgjr00]

Does that mean in the future I won't have to travel so far to the coast?

[LTDanCypher]

The ice has been melting for thousands of years even he said it, we don't need to keep saying oh crap we screwed up. its all part of the planets life cycle isn't it. and has anyone tried the ice block in the cup trick, when it melts the water level is lower cos the weight of the block was heavier which made the water higher, who knows maybe its the same with the planet.

[Tiberianson]

Blablablabla

[TimmyOFlinn]

Funny When I was a kid in school I remember the teacher telling us how if all the ice melted it would raise the ocean levels all over the world, 30+ years later I go down to the same beach I play on as a kid and the water is no higher despite the fact that alot of the glaciers have recieded. If you ask me I would say that all those holes we drilled in the ground and sucked the oil out of is where all the water is going.

[spinaway]

Try Googling the great global warming swindle

[d0nj03]

It sure is. That's where most of the ice is anyway - at the South pole - and it's not showing any intention of melting away whatsoever. The Arctic is peanuts compared to the ANTarctic, but the OMFG-AGW alarmists somehow always forget to mention that tiny detail. :))

[Bullettube]

Wrong, the Antarctic ice is melting at an unusually high rate as well. Recently, a huge section of ice broke free and drifted northward. The South pole does not receive as much direct sunlight as the north, so the effect is slower.

The alarmists are scientists who study the ice on a daily basis, so pay attention!

[kinnon88]

yes ice sheets are melting in the antarctic, but you must remember they are ice sheets! they are already displacing water. so if they melt there will be no increase in sea level. the biggests problem is glacial melt,as they dont displace water.

[goog2k]

Sorry kinnon88, that's a mistake. For floating ice like in the arctic that's true. If it melts, sea levels don't rise because it's already in the ocean.

But for ice piled on land like in the Antarctic and Greenland, if it slides into the ocean or melts, sea levels rise accordingly.

If just the ice in Greenland were to melt it would raise sea levels 6 meters (18.5 ft.)

[kinnon88]

technically its not a mistake. But i should have strictly said that land ice melt is a threat to sea level rise.

[goog2k]

Yeah okay, but I think there's enough ice in Antarctica and Greenland to raise sea levels about 200 ft.

Just a slight technical mistake.

For some scary info check out the YouTubes:

Polar Ice Update

and

Global warming - Greenland glaciers rapidly melting

[EmperorBarbarosa]

however when the ice melts it reveals farms built by the vikings. you know during the middle age warm period. when it was many degrees hotter than today. and the trees and animals doubled and tripled in population. heat is generally good for life and biodiversity.

[Baronstone]

@Bullettube Uh no, only part of it is melting, the rest of it is growing at previously unknown rates/

[Bullettube]

@Baronstone Right, as I said, the South Pole doesn't receive as much sunlight as the North Pole so the effect is slower. Increased moisture, (caused by warmer ocean temps) moving south causes more snow and ice to build up inland, but the Antarctic glaciers melt faster as they move northward. The overall effect is still the same: a higher average global temperature.

[harrynicholas]

The other thing - when ice melts doesn't it take up less room? I thought water, as ice, floated 'cos it expands and becomes less dense, so isn't the sea-level going to go down if all that ice melts? I can see that most Arctic ice is on top of rock, but isn't Ant-artica one big block of martini-cooler?

[harrynicholas]

The sooner we get off this planet the better. My feeling is that global warming is either a fad, or it's part of a planetary cycle, either way if it is happening it'll be unstoppable, global geological/astronomical events are a bit beyond us unless we get lucky. Better to diversify, get some spare humans orbiting the milky way and they'll be able to look back at the extinct dinosaur that was earth the way we lose sleep over the Dodo. Besides I was promised moon holidays - where are they?

[pgjr00]

what are destroy other planets? maybe the sooner we die out the better!

[harrynicholas]

I wish you could write english, did you actually ahve a point or was that random ranting.

[jthasmail]

good idea, start by killing yourself

[7THIRTEEN13]

Polar bears can swim steadily for several hours up to 100 km or more. Other then SEALS they also eat Svalbard reindeer, seabirds, geese, and eggs of eider ducks as well as scavenging dead whales. They have also been known to eat berries, grass, and dive for kelp. As for the environment, while your freezing your asses off living in a 200 SF recycled newspaper shack heated by burning your own feces...

I'll be dead by the time the Earth freezes over, floods, burns up, nuclear winter, whatever ;]

[YouSpamTard]

Big breasts. Tight sweater.

[darthroden]

The Polar Bear on the ice picture at the beginning is a fraud!

[harrynicholas]

You're right, if you look closely you can see the zipper up the back. The 'ice-berg' it's standing on is styro-foam, and the so-called 'ocean' is computer generated - look at the high-lights.

Pass me the Doritos will you?

[d0nj03]

Dude, just look how theatrical they are, look how exaggerated their gestures are, trying so hard to look like serious scientists. These people are clowns (and liars). And BTW, the seas aren't rising at all, there's plenty of studies showing that. Oh, and spare me the Al Gore "I'm thinking of my children" routine. Your dreams and feelings have nothing to do with science.

[Angrybeaver1988]

Yep, global warming = blown way out of proportion.

[harrynicholas]

Uh, can't polar bears swim? Don't they eat fish? For a moment there I went 'oh poor bear is gonna starve' and then I switched on my brain.

[Zejna90]

Lol polar bears can swim and they eat fish but they're not fish. They used to live on ice planes which are very rare now...

[seizure507]

@harrynicholas they do or they will evolve to be aquatic bears lol

[Bullettube]

@harrynicholas Polar bears mostly hunt seals that pop up for air in the sea ice. The bears sometimes fish from the ice as well. They are not fast enough to catch seals and fish in the water, they have adapted to live and hunt on the ice. No ice: no hunting, no hunting: no food, result: starvation.

[grimmreaper520]

ppl are dellusional, we cant stop the climate change. we can slow it down, yes. but not stop it, if its meant to happen it will happen. the sun and the moon play the key roles in sea level and stability. and the sun is controlling our climate. as i mentioned it we can only slow it down by reducing our part in it by reducing our greenhouse gas production.

[qwAirGear]

At this point most people (on all sides of the political spectrum) have abandoned the idea that we can truly stop it. That's dying the same way that the "it's not happening at all" way of thought is dying. That's lucky for us since at least from here the common ground is that there is something going on which will affect human civilization for a long time to come.

[Winnuting]

omg the poor polar bears will drown. we need to kill people that pollute the environment. And need higher taxes to stop global warming too. and stop driving cars.

Every human is killing the earth. if the earth dies we die.

[harrynicholas]

You could start by jumping off a cliff, that way you could save some animals and I wouldn't have to read your inane twaddle. Also, as I just pointed out above polar bears are reasonably good swimmers, and they like the tatse of fish, so I think that 'poor polar bear' who looks so lonely and hungry is just taking a rest after tearing a seal to shreds. Try to think now and then.

[jthasmail]

you are right, my suggestion is that you donate all your money to the government, any government will do, and then promptly kill yourself

[pro272727]

This is a study, not a fact, this is only what this guy thinks is going to happen.

[1492man]

How man "behaves" actually has little effect on this warming cycle the earth is going through.

[Bucknik]

I'm more worried about global cooling due to a complete lack of sunspots. Global temperatures follow sunspot activity and CO2 levels -follow- global temperature changes. You do the math.

BTW: from the current temperature, cooling would be worse than warming for life on earth.

[jthasmail]

i am no scientist by i gaurantee that the earth will be cooler 50 years down the line, its always like that when people go around screaming something in hysteria, exactly the opposite happens

[jhamaker]

If there was a major sea ice melt 9000 years ago, doesn't the current situation imply some sort of natural cycle. They are blaming humans, but they are not giving much information about how/why this current melt is different from previous melts.

For what it's worth, I do see the need to be environmentally responsible as a separate issue from Global warming. It's important to take care of the Earth, but I'm not convinced that human activity and global climate change are intimately linked.

[winterborn82]

according to science man has been around long enough to have lived through at least 1-2 warming and cooling cycles, we are adapted to survive it. to state that we as humans are responsible for a global change in temperature of the magnitude claimed is just a little bit arrogant. if i remember my science classes right climactic changes of far greater temperature increases & decreases have occured, the planet &the life on it are still here.

[qwAirGear]

Oh, the question isn't if it'll end life. Life will be just fine. The real question is how, say, our coastal cities and crops will do with all of this. That has large consequences for both the people there and our local, national, and global economies, especially if we don't take action in the sense of building up/taking better care of levees and adjusting our farming.

[winterborn82]

good point. many will probably end up like alexandria under water. it certainly wont be the first time.

[foolioay]

So.... PANIC, PANIC, PANIC! eh?

Also, Polar Bears can swim.

[Amadeojd]

Pleeeeease... showing perfectly healthy polar bear taking a bath on a perfectly normal piece of melting snow has nothing to do with global warming and is but an appeal to emotions.

Basically nothing has been proved by the people interviewed but that when it happened last time it happened in a certain way. If Global Warming itself is a miscalculation (as we'll know in 15 years if it's the case), this is not at all important.

[JW93HB07]

i agree with alot of points made in the comments bellow, however i doutb avoiding blame is the answer. Or that adaptation and dodging the repair of this promblem is the answer

what we need is to adapt(like said) but we also need to combat this problem. It proberbly wont be that big of a problem to the adults of today. However if everone would fight towards making the world safer and generaly a better place to live my generation and younger ones might have a better chance of a better future.

[1BuckeyeNation]

Doesn't this prove that man has little to do with the melting of glaciers? If it happened 9000 years ago before man burned fossil fuels and it happened faster than it is happening today is a pretty good indicator that man is not the culprit behind global warming.

[qwAirGear]

I'm taking this as it really doesn't matter if we are or not. It looks like either way there's trouble ahead (and probably even more trouble than we think) and we need to adapt to it. Remember, even the theories saying that we're causing some of modern warming say that what's happening now was caused by things done decades ago; as said, put it all together and what matters isn't who's causing it but the fact that it's happening in a huge way.

[Amadeojd]

Good point. We must prepare instead of trying to stop it. That would NOT work, manmade or not.

[videochick770]

thanks for this report. things are going to be tough. especially since so many people don't want to look at this problem.