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Climate Change Is Forcing Entire Countries to Migrate
Topic Started: Oct 24 2012, 02:43 AM (414 Views)
Brewster
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Living where the sea is overtaking you is about as dumb as it gets.

That would apply to any form of living as if the greatest danger the human race has ever faced is never going to affect you personally.

It's almost as dumb as ignoring / denying what the vast majority of scientists are telling you because it's inconvenient and/or doesn't agree with your Ideology.
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Pat
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It isn't going to affect me or my family Brew. i don't live that way and never have.
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Brewster
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Oh, what are you doing to avoid it?

And since one person by themselves can't fix the problem, what are you doing to convince others to change their ways?
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Antarctica is shedding an average of 190 million tonnes of ice every day, according to a landmark study that used satellites to ''weigh'' the vast landmass.

Although parts of East Antarctica are growing, glaciers in West Antarctica are melting faster, leading to a net loss of ice across the continent, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

''We're confident that the ice cover is shrinking, and the rate along the Amundsen Sea coast is accelerating,'' said the lead researcher Professor Matt King, of the University of Tasmania.

Rapid melting in some parts of the continent is partially offset by heavy snowfalls elsewhere, meaning that the net loss of ice per year is about 69 billion tonnes.Previous studies had struggled to accurately map the land mass under most of Antarctica's huge ice shelves, and this knowledge is crucial to measuring the thickness of the ice.

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As more ice melts, the land mass itself is gradually rising at a rate of about two millimetres per year, like a cake slowly baking in an oven.

''It's like if you're standing on a beach with some wet sand, and you move your foot and the print disappears pretty quickly, it just flows back into place,'' Professor King said.

The answer was a new analytical model that was able to make satellite data match the ground-based observations about ice melt and land rise, and revised down the speed that the land is coming up.

The study made unique use of satellite date, from a project known as GRACE, short for Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. Twin satellites orbit the Earth, 220 kilometres apart and about 500 kilometres above the ground.

As they spin, tiny changes in the mass of the Earth below affect their position in relation to each other, and they carry instruments sensitive enough to measure a change in distance of about 10 micrometres - about a tenth the width of a human hair.

Coupled with global positioning systems, the satellites can send back highly detailed information about Earth's gravity and therefore its landmass, even when the planet's surface is hidden deep beneath the ice.
One result of the findings is that melting ice in Antarctica is not contributing as much to global sea level rise as some other studies have assumed.

While the continent contains enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 59 metres should it ever all melt, the findings show it is currently contributing less than a millimetre per year.Professor King said the findings showed that sea levels had already been rising faster than they had for centuries without much extra water from the Antarctic ice sheet.

''The melt in some key areas is sped up between 2006 and 2010, when the study ended,'' he said. ''So it shows that sea level rise can be expected to change quite sharply if the melt rate continues to increase, on top of what's already happening.''
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Berton
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Don't worry Pat, if the so called scientists are correct they are saying the sea is rising at a rate of only some 3 mm per year. That is a very small amount.

More likely those islands Brewster is so worried about are naturally subsiding which is causing the problems they may or may not have in the future. There are sea mounts all over the Pacific which were islands at one time but because of sea bed movement are now underwater.
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The sky is falling and the sea is rising, in ten trillion years we will all be under water. lol
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