Faster Sea Rise

A new study indicates that sea level rise due to global warming could double or triple what climate forecasters have previously predicted for the end of the century. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/

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[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.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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.

[Baronstone]

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

[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?

[seizure507]

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

[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.

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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.

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New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning

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

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

[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.

[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