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([url]http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/antarctica/west-antarctic-ice-sheet/[/url])
[quote][B]Key glaciers in West Antarctica are in an irreversible retreat, a study team led by the US space agency (Nasa) says.[/B]
It analysed 40 years of observations of six big ice streams draining into the Amundsen Bay and concluded that nothing now can stop them melting away.
[B]Although these are abrupt changes, the timescales involved are likely measured in centuries, the researchers add.[/B]
[B]If the glaciers really do disappear, they would add roughly 1.2m to global sea level rise.[/B]
The new study has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, but Nasa held a teleconference on Monday to brief reporters on the findings.
[B]Prof Eric Rignot said warm ocean water was relentlessly eating away at the glaciers' fronts and that the geometry of the sea bed in the area meant that this erosion had now entered a runaway process.
"We present observational evidence that a large section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has gone into a state of irreversible retreat; it has passed the point of no return," the agency glaciologist explained.[/B]
"This retreat will have major consequences for sea level rise worldwide. [B]It will raise sea levels by 1.2m, or 4ft, but its retreat will also influence adjacent sectors of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet which could triple this contribution to sea level."[/B] [/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27381010[/url]
[url]http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/news/antarctic-ice-sheet-20140512/#.U3E0oyhKbjI[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQMtb1Pd07E[/media]
Well, shit.
[QUOTE=OvB;44792109]It analysed 40 years of observations of six big ice streams draining into the Amundsen Bay and concluded that [b]nothing now can stop them melting away.[/b][/QUOTE]
we fucked up
I live on top of a valley that goes down to the ocean. If the sea level rises, my house will become a beach-side villa. I say melt it all!
Pool party!
[QUOTE=Jcorp;44792140]we fucked up[/QUOTE]
Wonder what will come from all this.
Not that I'm saying nothing bad will come, some things will change for the worse but I wonder what the details will be like.
Well, there go the lowlands and coastlines. 4ft's kind of a lot if you think about it, it reaches above the average waistline.
[QUOTE=Riller;44792142]I live on top of a valley that goes down to the ocean. If the sea level rises, my house will become a beach-side villa. I say melt it all![/QUOTE]
I live below sea level :D
:(
[QUOTE=ironman17;44792186]Well, there go the lowlands and coastlines. 4ft's kind of a lot if you think about it, it reaches above the average waistline.[/QUOTE]
Find out for yourself. Though it seems kind of inaccurate at 1.2 meters.
[url]http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15682[/url]
(at least I hope it's inaccurate at 1.2 meters :tinfoil:)
[QUOTE=Clavus;44792288]I live below sea level :D
:([/QUOTE]
Right now, the people in houseboats must be laughing their fucking heads off.
[QUOTE=Clavus;44792288]I live below sea level :D
:([/QUOTE]
Another perk of rising sea levels, we will finally be rid of the pesky dutch. No more shall my nationality be mistaken by geographically oblivious Americans!
[QUOTE=Riller;44792142]I live on top of a valley that goes down to the ocean. If the sea level rises, my house will become a beach-side villa. I say melt it all![/QUOTE]Your entire country will become a beach :v:
[QUOTE=RichyZ;44792443]wont be funny when they lose their farmland, temperatures increase, insects native to higher temperature areas move in, and they get horrible diseases[/QUOTE]
Houseboat-people in the west aren't farmers, they're artsy-fartsy hippies who want to pretend they're living a bohemian lifestyle by being able to move any time they want; but really, they're just cunts who suck at Kalaha.
its ok we'll just make a city under the sea and no one will die its totally OK guys
We'll just make a city on the newly exposed Antarctic continent. Jokes on you, mother nature!
[QUOTE=dije;44792424]Your entire country will become a beach :v:[/QUOTE]
Life's a beach, and then you drown. Either that or the Deep Ones come to touch your butt while you sleep.
But on the plus side if you accept Lord Dagon as your lord and saviour, your town gets big fish and gold trinkets. Bad news is you have to sacrifice a virgin to the Esoteric Order every so often, so I'm glad I live further inland.
[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;44792508]Not to worry, in order to counter this human species-threatening event, we are currently doing:[/QUOTE] Well at least the Australian government is doing their part [url]http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/news/govt-to-axe-australian-renewable-energy-agency-n2514228[/url]
Watch as, rather than cut back on fossil fuel emissions, we just build gigantic space buckets that lift up trillions of gallons of water and fling it into space.
[QUOTE=Angua;44792549]Well at least the Australian government is doing their part [url]http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/news/govt-to-axe-australian-renewable-energy-agency-n2514228[/url][/QUOTE]
To be honest, ARENA is a [I]really[/I] stupid acronym for a sustainable energy agency. I prolly would'ave axed it, too.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;44792553]Watch as, rather than cut back on fossil fuel emissions, we just build gigantic space buckets that lift up trillions of gallons of water and fling it into space.[/QUOTE]
We could just send that water to Mars, that way the rover can drink some clean martian spring water when it gets thirsty.
We just need to increase our population to bind the water, no worries. Maybe grow some trees while we're at it.
[QUOTE=Mitai;44792741]We just need to increase our population to bind the water, no worries. Maybe grow some trees while we're at it.[/QUOTE]
Lets just dump the water on mars so it has some again
Looks like we need Yellowstone to explode in order to bring down global temperatures.
I wonder how many more years we have left before property values in Miami tank because it's going to be permanently underwater.
Ha, underwater. Mortgage pun.
[QUOTE=Mitai;44792741]We just need to increase our population to bind the water, no worries. Maybe grow some trees while we're at it.[/QUOTE]
I can kinda see the logic, since most lifeforms have a high water content anyways. Thirsty trees drink deep and breathe deep, locking up the water and the carbon in its woodsieness. So planting more trees could be a good form of damage control, laying down large forests to collectively soak up what we don't need.
We can still use fossil fuels, just so long as the emissions stay in line with the growing of trees and lock up the excess water and CO2 in trunk and branch, leaf and bark, fruit and nut. Kinda wish we had some sort of Woodsie Lord to make it happen, I imagine the loggers in the Amazon would get a lot more shit if the trees they were cutting down were actually sentient. But whether to let the world force them to abandon the "genocide", or to give the trees the means to fight back?
If some crazed super-scientist could make trees into tree-people, or at least grow ents to protect the forests, I would give them so much money to do that, since the trees are important and need to be protected, and what better way to protect the trees than with giant terrifying tree-people that stomped and crushed and scared away the manfools, whilst tending to the trees like a kindly grandfather/shepherd? If no-one else is going to protect the trees, you might as well make giant tree-herds to make the lumberjacks go home and be family men.
Welp, we fucked it up.
We might as well make the best of it, and figure out how to prepare.
Well, start by making more forests, then make the trees sentient so that no-one could cut them down without committing murder, and invent the ents so that the forests are protected from the swine who try to cut them down anyways.
Surely we smart humans can think of a way to solve this problem...
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What a Shame.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;44793134]How is going to add even more water help?[/QUOTE]
You missed the joke.
Why don't we just spin the earth really fast for a few hours so a bunch of water flies off into space
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