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To: Snowshoe who wrote (148150)4/29/2019 3:34:30 PM
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Thanks Snowy. My interest was piqued because the ground is obviously not permanently frozen as it's fully covered by trees and whatnot.

Also, rivers erode mountains as usual.

The article by Sabrina was the usual silly stuff. It explained the the "Settled Science" isn't settled after all...giggle... yet denialists were supposed to be jailed for doubting the science is settled. Which she says it's not. But presumably is now that she has explained that by 2300 the team of climate scientists with an economist or 2 thrown in have determined the cost of permafrost melting will be 66.9 trillion in today's money and some other silly amounts depending on how compliant we are with giving them megatons of opm. Predicting such numbers is silly 300 years from now.

It's true that glaciers have melted a long way since the end of the little ice age. I have walked on them and seen the shrinkage over 50 years. Much shrinkage happened before that.

Heck they now grow grapes in Gibbstom valley which once had a kilometre of ice stacked on top.

Same at Lakes Tekapo Pukaki Hawea Wanaka etc. Now they are not vast glaciers but beautiful chocolate box scenes.

Permafrost melts when glaciation ends.

The ice age has run for millions of years and interglacials of 10,000 years are normal. Sea level rose 250 metres due to the huge melt.

Of course if people build things on ice such as lakes glaciers and permafrost and it melts, the structures sink. That's a risk like building on top of cliffs for the view = look out below.

All the entrained plants and animals in the permafrost were alive 100,000 years ago at the last interglacial. It's a cycle. But with a freezing trend toward snowball Earth.

Coming out of the Little Ice Age is a good thing.

I don't buy their tipping point feedback loop dread though of course 0.05 degrees is enough to melt ice. The edge of the ice has always been. The edge grows and shrinks.

As glaciers show even frozen ice flows downhill albeit slowly. Same with permafrost hills. That photo might not even have ice in it. If it does it's just another landslide as happens everywhere.

Methane doesn't last long in air. Neither does CO2 though we have got it up to 400 ppm from 280ppm at the beginning of the oil age.

Mqurice
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