Imminent Glacier Collapse Update: Not ONLY Is It Going to Take 10,000 Years, Vice the NEXT WEEK (OMGS!!!) the Reports’d Have Us Believing
…but, actually READING the report, it turns out the little frozen BASTARD’S PULLED THIS TRICK BEFORE!!!
WAIT AN APOCALYPTIC MINUTE! That damn Antarctic glacier's DONE THIS BEFORE? Who'd they blame 3.5 million years ago? http://t.co/FjK3tiHkgp
— tree hugging sister (@treehuggingsis) May 13, 2014
…The Wilkes Basin likely experienced a similar episode of massive ice discharge about 4.8 million to 3.5 million years ago, according to sediment remains in the area. That past discharge occurred during the Pliocene epoch when global climate was warmer than it is today, but similar to the climate projections for the end of the 21st century.
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May 13, 2014 2:43 pm
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All that ice … … no doubt Mr. Bingley is breaking out the makings for a lot of martinis.
Or, in this context, would he prefer Manhattans?
Further down in the article…
“The simulations suggest that the greatest rate of sea level rise produced by this event would be about 0.02 inches (0.5 millimeters) per year, which is two times the rate of Antarctica’s current total contribution to sea level rise, the team reports.
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Somehow I don’t think hip waders should be on anyone’s shopping list because of this.
The American Miscellaneous Society once had the idea of towing Antarctic icebergs to California to solve the water shortages in Los Amgeles. That was the same group that came up with the idea of drilling into the Earth’s matle-crust boundary (the moho). Perhaps this iceberg should be towed to Arabia to ameliorate the predicted water shortages coming up in the Middle East. One barrel of water for one barrel of oil sounds like a fair trade.
The only country in the region not predicted to suffer such shortages is Israel, because of its efficient and large scale desalinization program.