'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
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Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#2look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began...
you'll be surprised at the results
Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#3look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began... you'll be surprised at the results
Would you care to share your results with the rest of us, instead of making each of us go look?
See, you only have to write your post once. But it's read multiple times. So it's more efficient (and more polite) for the author to do the homework, rather than for the readers to do it.
Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#4With a layman's understanding of sea level rise projections from studies like this, I now have a macabre fascination walking around in popular public places that are either barely above sea level or already below sea level and have been for a long time - like Balboa Island near Los Angeles [0], and marveling at the fact that in ~100 years time these places may not exist at all or at least in a drastically different fashion than they do now. This became fascinating to me because some of these places haven't even really been around that long. In geological time scales 100 years is nothing, or even in human history time scales - places that are just a ~century long blip in the historical record can easily be forgotten by future civilizations. It makes me marvel at how much of human history we have likely lost to climate change and other external factors. To us, 100 years seems like an eternity, because that's beyond the span of most humans' natural lives. A mighty metropolis like Los Angeles at the bottom of the ocean in 2000 years may not even end up being discovered!
This is all I can do really because thinking about it with any other feeling than awe or apathy is extremely difficult. We're living in what will surely be a pivotal moment in history, and not all societies have been able to say that.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balboa_Island,_Newport_Beach
Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
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Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#6look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began... you'll be surprised at the results
Would you care to share your results with the rest of us, instead of making each of us go look? See, you only have to write your post once. But it's read multiple times. So it's more efficient (and more polite) for the author to do the homework, rather than for the readers to do it.
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Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#7look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began... you'll be surprised at the results
I'd be more surprised if they measured the same thing.
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#8What would happen if one of those 2000lb bombs was buried in this berg and exploded?
Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#9look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began... you'll be surprised at the results
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_England_temperature
Its gone up. Not sure what was supposed to be surprising about this.
Re: 'Doomsday' glacier set to melt faster and swell seas as world heats up
#10look at the difference in mean annual temperature between this year and the year in which the temperature observations began... you'll be surprised at the results
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_England_temperature Its gone up. Not sure what was supposed to be surprising about this.
conclusions... the conclusions of information processing can be surprising
. you can see how many degrees it has risen in the time we've been watching
.. planet earth is warming now coming out of another ice age and this is a normal phenomenon that cannot be influenced
can you formulate an understandable definition of what the media calls 'global warming' based on this?