NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
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NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
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Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#2In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source.
Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#3In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#4In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
Try a revenue neutral carbon tax.
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#5In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Part of the reason is gravitational effects. When a large amount of ice melts, the Earth's gravity is shifted away from that region.
This gives you a sense of the absolutely huge amount of ice we're talking about. For example, if the West Antarctic Ice Shelf collapses we'll see about 10 metres of sea level rise, but mostly in the northern hemisphere. To underline just how much ice this is, this effect will slowly be counteracted as the ground below slowly rebounds (as it no longer has a huge amount of ice crushing it down from above).
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#6In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Maybe I'm daft but one suggested itself to me: if you add more very cold water locally, that influences the temperature and pressure/density differentials with existing currents. It's presumably the effect on those currents that causes more water to build up elsewhere.
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#7In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
Well, when you largely ignore a problem for 27 years, the solution tends to get expensive. The decades go by ...
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
Try a revenue neutral carbon tax.
We're trying. The left opposes it because it doesn't make government bigger: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-lefts-opposition...
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#9In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Part of the reason is gravitational effects. When a large amount of ice melts, the Earth's gravity is shifted away from that region. This gives you a sense of the absolutely huge amount of ice we're talking about. For example, if the West Antarctic Ice Shelf collapses we'll see about 10 metres of sea level rise, but mostly in the northern hemisphere. To underline just how much ice this is, this effect will slowly be…
Potentially related is the centrifugal effect - the Earth bulges at the equator slightly because of spin. Logically, melted ice would tend to cause water to "rise" more at the equators (further from the ice caps) than near the poles.
Re: NASA Scientists Suggest We’ve Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise
#10In terms of sea level changes, however, the study found the effects of melting are more drastically felt in regions farther from its source. Would be nice if they had a theory why.
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
People have had 50 years to start solving the problem on their own.