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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12190)	5/2/2007 11:53:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"We have no funds to start new initiatives," he told the scientists and reporters. If I were about to run out of funding, what type of report would most likely get me money - a report that says we are all doomed of course.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12190)	5/2/2007 1:16:25 PM
From: Triffin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

Glaciers on Greenland, the world's most icy land mass, are now melting most quickly where they are in contact with surrounding ocean, while ice in the high centre remains intact, said Garry Clarke, a professor at the University of British Columbia in this western Canadian city. But if global warming causes the freezing level to move higher, the loss of ice would be worse than Greenland experienced in previous interglacial periods dating back hundreds of thousands of years. "It would be the complete disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet," Clarke told a meeting of scientists and journalists. "We still don't know how quickly our rendezvous with this will occur." This is a non problem ..... Sure ... if all the ice sheet melted, then sea level would rise 7 meters or so .... It's just not going to happen on any time scale that matters to humans .... Just do the math ..... 630,000 cubic miles is a hell of a lot of ice .... net melt is maybe 50 cubic miles annually and it's all sea-ice .... If you told me that the planet's axial tilt was going to vertical (ie) no more seasons .... then maybe it would melt faster .... This isn't a real problem and completely discredits the GW alarmist point of view .... We need to deal with Peak Oil mitigation .... Not melting Ice Caps ..... Triff ..