Humans can not possibly get any stupider than climate scientists.
Paris (AFP) – Sea levels around Antarctica have been rising a third faster than the global average, a clear sign of high meltwater runoff from the continent’s ice sheet, scientists said on Sunday.
Satellite data from 1992 to 2011 found the sea surface around Antarctica’s coast rose by around eight centimetres (3.2 inches) in total compared to a rise of six cm for the average of the world’s oceans, they said.
Sea-level surge at Antarctica linked to icesheet loss – Yahoo News
These morons think that Antarctica is melting down at -50C, and that the runoff water pools into an elevated mound which remains around Antarctica’s coast year after year. If that were true, a daily high tide would never recede.
The breathtaking stupidity of these people defies explanation. A more plausible explanation would be that increased glacial weight is causing the land to subside.
And the Journal that publishes this drivel as well
Well at least mainstream Russian newspapers are smart LOL WE should not forget that in this physical sciences area they are amongst the best.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/01-09-2014/128413-global_warming_science-0/
Dang, That is a good article. He hits all the points.
The Russians of course have a vested interest in really knowing what the climate will do. They have no desire to starve from decades of colder temperatures or worse.
Funny, when I get in the tub the water rises equally all the way around. They must have discovered some new physics.
Beat me to it. By their thinking, if you turn on the water it doesn’t reach the other end of the tub.
This reminds me of the first rising ocean level scares a number of years ago. Enviros were always using the coast of Louisiana and certain portions of the California coast as examples of ocean level rise. They had to pick and choose carefully to get the answer/story they wanted. Turned out the section of Louisiana they chose was subsiding due to oil extraction and the coast of California was dropping as the area on one side of the fault slid down into the ocean.
same thing in other coastal areas with wide continental shelves.The massive amounts of silt from the rivers has deflected the coasts (like America’s East Coast) thus giving rise to horror stories of ‘massive’ sea level rises.
Or the Pacific islands subsiding as they deplete the fresh water under them.
Etc.
These guys are actually pretty clever. They have gotten a bunch of fools to give them billions of dollars for nothing.
P.T. Barnum was an amateur!
Maybe that evil Mann-made CO2 has dissolved in the melt water and has been activated by cosmic rays coming through the hole in the ozone layer turning formerly natural water into it’s doppelgänger, a destructive polymerized pollutant characterized by massive increases in viscosity… and it’s probably a carcinogen that increases cholesterol to boot.
+1
Maybe you should write that up and see if you can get a US grant or at least a U. S. GRANT
I grew up near U.S. Grant’s Cabin is that a plus on my grant request?
I used to live near the Anheuser-Busch clydesdale breeding farm in Merrimack, N.H. The foals in the spring were hilarious to watch.
When I was growing up, Sappington Rd. which fronts Grant’s cabin in that linked photo, was where the breeding farm was in St. Louis. One year our HS bus route went right by there and we got to see them everyday. They are beautiful animals and I always thought the foals were like tall Basset Hound puppies… they’re born with full sized feet.
They must be betting that people don’t know melting doesn’t occur until temperatures rises above 32F.
however, sublimation does occur at temperatures below 32F, of course that then goes into the atmosphere not into the sea
And comes down as snow in Australia and New Zealand.
One of the best ski season in years in Australia
“In Australia we are hoping Al Gore will stay around as he is bringing with him one of the best ski seasons we have seen for years,” says reader Kenneth Morgan. “So Al, please stick around.”
BTW, over at IceAgeNow I saw this interesting comment:
WOW what ARROGANCE!
How about I ‘delete’ my highest monthly electric bill?
Great idea. You would be saving money and saving energy.
(Your usage got deleted. Hey, it works in “climate science”.)
And what happens as the ice sheets get thicker. Is that is the confusing trick question.
Actually, the fresh water from the melting ice is less dense than sea water, and does not readily mix with it, but “floats” on top, gradually dissapating. But as more keeps arriving (from melting ice), if the volume is sufficiently great it does form a layer that raises the sea surface slightly in the area of the melt.
At -50C? Wouldn’t it immediately refreeze? Isn’t a fresh water freezing point 0C?
Obviously it all depends upon the temperature of the ocean & the air, and (importantly) on the mass of the water (fresh and salt) involved.. The fact remains that what I wrote in not theoretical, but rather the physical science underlying the observed phenomina under discussion. The increase in the sea level over limited areas proximate to the discharge of fresh water ice melt has been studied and the fact of a fresh water layer has been established. Not a whole lot melting at -50C.