"Doomsday glacier" hanging on "by its fingernails," scientists say

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It's kind of scary to think that some people may only have a few hundred years to pick up and move a few feet back from the beach when the water starts to rise.

[Meatwad]

If I put ice in a glass of water and the ice melts, does the water in the glass stay the same or magically increase

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Most of North America used to be covered by glaciers. Will they melted it turned out to be a pretty good thing.

[Elfie]

explain the plane in the alps they found last month. it isn't rocket science.


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What is there to explain? In the Alps it got hot enough to melt enough snow to explose the aircraft. Greenland on the other hand...

https://visitgreenland.com/about-greenland/greenland-climate-weather/

Greenland has an Arctic climate with average temperatures that do not exceed 10° C (50° F) in the warmest summer months. The air quality in Greenland is among the best in the world due to the country’s geographical position to the high north.

In the southern part of the country and the innermost parts of the long fjords, the temperature can, however, rise to more than 20° C (68° F) in June, July or August, and due to the fine air quality and low levels of moisture in the air, in general you are able to see very, very far.

See? No rocket science here either and a simple internet search came up with the answer in milliseconds. It simply got far warmer in the Alps than it does in Greenland.

[guncrasher]

If I put ice in a glass of water and the ice melts, does the water in the glass stay the same or magically increase

if you start with ice and water all the way to the top. water in the glass will remain the same.

if instead of water you add whiskey, glass will mostly be empty.

prove me wrong on both items.


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[bj229r]

explain the plane in the alps they found last month. it isn't rocket science.


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It crashed?

[Elfie]

It crashed?

[Toad]

One of the earliest signs that the poles were ice-free and warm 100 million years ago was the discovery at the turn of the 20th century of fossil breadfruit trees from the Cretaceous in Greenland; today such trees are at home in places like Hawaii. Since then, even more extraordinary finds have been made.

The most evocative image of a warm Arctic has emerged from the work of John Tarduno of the University of Rochester, New York. For more than a decade, Tarduno has been hunting for fossils on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian Arctic, just west of Greenland. The island was already well within the Arctic Circle 90 million years ago.

His team has found bones and even partial skeletons of a crocodile-like creature called a champsosaur from this period. The champsosaur was a fish-eating reptile up to 2.4 metres long that probably looked much like the gharials of India. Because these reptiles would have relied on their environment to stay warm, conditions in the far north must have been far hotter than today. “These fossils speak volumes,” says palaeoclimatologist Paul Wilson of the University of Southampton in the UK.            https://1776now.org/when-crocodiles-roamed-the-arctic/#:~:text=The%20island%20was%20already%20well%20within%20the%20Arctic,probably%20looked%20much%20like%20the%20gharials%20of%20India.

Amazingly enough, it seems Earth's temperature has varied widely over the eons. Eons when no humanoids built fires or had herds of farting cows. What a puzzlement.

[sparky127]

There's a lot of fresh water locked up in the polar caps.  LV and LA could really use that water.

[Elfie]

There's a lot of fresh water locked up in the polar caps.  LV and LA could really use that water.

They need to quit wasting water on their lawns and in their swimming pools, don't they know the Colorado River doesn't make it to the Gulf now?

[Meatwad]

Needs a government incentive to replace lawns with astroturf. No more lawns to water and no evil polluting gas lawnmowers to mow it. Saves on water AND
going green by.not using gas to mow. Win win.

[guncrasher]

What is there to explain? In the Alps it got hot enough to melt enough snow to explose the aircraft. Greenland on the other hand...

https://visitgreenland.com/about-greenland/greenland-climate-weather/

See? No rocket science here either and a simple internet search came up with the answer in milliseconds. It simply got far warmer in the Alps than it does in Greenland.

still say gravity. not to be argumentative but if you check the thickness of the ice and figure that the plane was 300 feet under. I say gravity also had something to do with it. unless the ice thickness grew by 300 feet in that area.


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[sparky127]

Maybe you should read a book about how glaciers work.

[Elfie]

still say gravity. not to be argumentative but if you check the thickness of the ice and figure that the plane was 300 feet under. I say gravity also had something to do with it. unless the ice thickness grew by 300 feet in that area.


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Gravity can't pull a plane through ice or any other solid.

[Eagler]

Never fear ...stupidity is here!

It will stop melting and refreeze as soon as gas is $15 a gallon and a normal power bill is $500 a month..and everyone owns an ev they can't charge..

We are so smart now we can control everything even the climate .. just ask the vegetable leading us now...

It's the perfect boogeyman...better than the shot...you will see...

Eagler