@sonhouse saidAre you suggesting water can not refreeze after it melts?
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-alaska-heavy-glaciers-approaching-irreversible.html
Just think, all this from just weather, couldn't POSSIBLY be from man made increase in greenhouse gasses could it?
@sonhouse saidGlaciers in Switzerland are also melting at record-breaking rates:
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-alaska-heavy-glaciers-approaching-irreversible.html
Just think, all this from just weather, couldn't POSSIBLY be from man made increase in greenhouse gasses could it?
https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-glaciers-melt-at-record-rate-report/a-66944292
One might think, yeah, so what, but it is actually quite dangerous. A layer of frozen rock and soil under the surface has kept the Alps in place since the last ice age, but when this 'perma-frost' layer melts, as it is doing now, the mountains become unstable and avalanches are the result. An avalanche can take out an entire village in the valley below in a matter of minutes; there is no time to evacuate, once one starts down the mountain.
@moonbus
Yep, and it might already be too late. Besides avalanches, there is the ocean level rise from all that melting ice, like if all the ice in Greenland melted they say the ocean level would go up some 40 feet all over the planet. Goodbye MY old home town of Venice Beach and Santa Monica, goodbye most of Florida, Manhattan mostly under water and the like around the planet.
@KellyJay
Suppose all the ice in Greenland melts, where do you think new ice will come from? It stays melted because the whole planet is hotter and that is NOT just weather, it is due to mankind burning fossil fuels raising the world levels of CO2 and when the ice goes, so does the tundra and millions of tons of methane goes into the atmosphere as well so there would be hundreds of years of oppressive heat till at least the methane has been converted to harmless gasses.
When it gets bad enough there WILL be a reckoning, when mankind starts starving because they can't grow crops as well there will be less fossil fuel burned because there will be way less humans due to starvation and inevitable resource wars. Probably nuclear as well.
@sonhouse saidSuppose what ever you want.
@KellyJay
Suppose all the ice in Greenland melts, where do you think new ice will come from? It stays melted because the whole planet is hotter and that is NOT just weather, it is due to mankind burning fossil fuels raising the world levels of CO2 and when the ice goes, so does the tundra and millions of tons of methane goes into the atmosphere as well so there would be hun ...[text shortened]... re will be way less humans due to starvation and inevitable resource wars. Probably nuclear as well.
@sonhouse saidThe risk is very much greater than merely coastal flooding. Take a look at this article:
@moonbus
Yep, and it might already be too late. Besides avalanches, there is the ocean level rise from all that melting ice, like if all the ice in Greenland melted they say the ocean level would go up some 40 feet all over the planet. Goodbye MY old home town of Venice Beach and Santa Monica, goodbye most of Florida, Manhattan mostly under water and the like around the planet.
https://physicsworld.com/a/atlantic-current-circulation-could-shut-down-say-climate-scientists/
This is truly scary.
@moonbus
Yes, and the atlantic current easing winter days in Europe and America is already 30% weaker and may stop altogether.
There are measurements of melting ice in Alaska and they say it now amounts to 50,000 gallons per SECOND of melting ice.
I went to Anchorage HS when I was 15 and one field trip we took was to the Portage glacier, a wonder of the world, so massive, but now it is already half gone.
I guess a huge climate change will starve billions of people and thus ending the reason for the change in the first place so it sounds like it will be self correcting.
@KellyJay
You mean the ice is not melting? I went to Anchorage HS when I was 15 and they took us on a field trip to Portage glacier, an awesome trip and now that glacier is half gone and measurements show Alaska ice is melting at a rate of 50,000 gallons per SECOND.
This is not just 'weather' this is due to humans burning fossil fuels for hundreds of years, and all that burning adds up and we see the result now.
You really think bush fires like the one in Canada that burned an area bigger than my state of Pennsylvania, which is about 300 miles wide and 200 odd miles deep, and we felt that right here by the smoke of the massive fire, made so much worse by the high tempratures and high winds and lightning which started the fires in the first place, I say fires because that is exactly what that was, lightning in several spots started several fires almost at the same time, impossible to stop.
Yep, just weather.
@sonhouse saidI meant what I said nothing more.
@KellyJay
You mean the ice is not melting? I went to Anchorage HS when I was 15 and they took us on a field trip to Portage glacier, an awesome trip and now that glacier is half gone and measurements show Alaska ice is melting at a rate of 50,000 gallons per SECOND.
This is not just 'weather' this is due to humans burning fossil fuels for hundreds of years, and all that bu ...[text shortened]... several spots started several fires almost at the same time, impossible to stop.
Yep, just weather.
@KellyJay saidOf course water can freeze, and if we want to wait to accept climate change until there is n frozen water left, most probably there is no human left to observe that.
Are you suggesting water can not refreeze after it melts?
What was clearly emant is: The melt velocity (the amount of ice between a full cycle of freezing and melting over the season is accelerating.
As is the temperature rise (globaly mean, not in some handpicked locations).
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@sonhouse saidFear not for our planet. Mother Nature will see to it that it, the planet, will rebound after man has “disappeared”. 👍
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-alaska-heavy-glaciers-approaching-irreversible.html
Just think, all this from just weather, couldn't POSSIBLY be from man made increase in greenhouse gasses could it?
@Ponderable saidYou believe that human life is responsible for ice melting and not freezing?
Of course water can freeze, and if we want to wait to accept climate change until there is n frozen water left, most probably there is no human left to observe that.
What was clearly emant is: The melt velocity (the amount of ice between a full cycle of freezing and melting over the season is accelerating.
As is the temperature rise (globaly mean, not in some handpicked locations).
@KellyJay saidIn fact the parallel between temperature rise and burning of carbonecous compunds is striking, as is the expalantion of how C=2 acts. So yes. Humans burn rders of magnitude more than can be bound, that has to have consequences.
You believe that human life is responsible for ice melting and not freezing?
Oh yes and there are some natural effects also acting on climate.