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what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

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by: ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 1:41am  
Animated map of what Earth would look like if all the ice meltedwithout arguing about whether or not there IS climate change, what if it IS true? www.businessinsider. com/what-earth-would -look-like-if-ice-me lted-world-map- 4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 6:12am  
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elguapo Active Indicator LED Icon 15
~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 6:48am  
More scare tactics from the left.
 
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 7:07am  
The main ice covered landmass is Antarctica at the South Pole, with about 90 percent of the world's ice (and 70 percent of its fresh water). Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 2,133 meters (7,000 feet) thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37°C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing.At the other end of the world, the North Pole, the ice is not nearly as thick as at the South Pole. The ice floats on the Arctic Ocean. If it melted sea levels would not be affecte­d. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 8:19am  
I'm inclined to think we are heading into a mini Ice Age, similar to the Dalton Minimum, which lasted from 1790-1830. Lord Byron wrote about the"year without a summer" in one of his poems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_MinimumAlso, see "Maunder Minimum", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_MinimumThe sun is in a phase of virtually no solar activity, so, yes, I expect the climate to change but it's hardly anything humans can affect, one way or another.http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25743806 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 8:25am  
We do as a world need to get clean drinking water to everyone.  If people have the basics in these third wold countries, then things like pollution will start to matter to them as well.  And having a cleaner earth is nothing but good.   But when a vast majority of the world population can't get the basics, pollution is a luxury most can't worry about. [quote-end-tag-mismatch]
 
@Fallon: The vast majority of the world population should get their s--t together.  We have been shipping money and people around the world for 60-70 years and it appears they are no further along then 60-70 years ago.  We solved our problems 200 years ago, until they step up and help themselves it isn't going to get any better. 
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 8:28am  
What I find interesting is the intense pressure on the United States to take draconian measures to clean the air, water, etc. by countries who are far, far worse when it comes to pollution!! China is among the very worst -- yet our idiot politicians fall right in line with those demands instead of turning the tables and telling the truly worst polluters to lead by example, for a change. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 8:33am  
I'm inclined to think we are heading into a mini Ice Age, similar to the Dalton Minimum, which lasted from 1790-1830. Lord Byron wrote about the"year without a summer" in one of his poems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_MinimumAlso, see "Maunder Minimum",�http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_MinimumThe sun is in a phase of virtually no solar activity, so, yes, I expect the climate to change but it's hardly anything humans can affect, one way or another.http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25743806
 
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The year without a summer was due to the horrific volcanic explosion from Mount Tambora. Interesting geoscience phenomenon. Google it if you want to know more. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 12:20pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 12:29pm  
@HollyHobby, did you see the article in ABC today?  They said O started to really care about climate change when his eldest dd was rushed to the ER for an asthma attack.  Really?I am sure it was all climate change, and not a thing to do with him smoking...Emoticon
 
@Fallon:   That's hilarious and so transparently false. If he really thinks that his daughter's asthma is due to global climate change, then he's just about as ignorant as I thought. Or deceitful.
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 1:02pm  
I'm in my 70's & ever since I was a young child I have been hearing about  what will happen when the ice melts & what will happen when  the natural forest disappear , so far none of it has come to be .....I'm not saying it couldn't happen , but this world has been here a lot longer than the people that live on it , & I'm sure that all the people that take care of our planet  are working on the problems they say could happen so they do not happen any time soon. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 1:24pm  
" without arguing about whether or not there IS climate change, what if it IS true?"and some people instantly began denying it could be true and into politics thereby missing the point entirely. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 1:27pm  
I'm inclined to think we are heading into a mini Ice Age, similar to the Dalton Minimum, which lasted from 1790-1830. Lord Byron wrote about the"year without a summer" in one of his poems.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_MinimumAlso, see "Maunder Minimum", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_MinimumThe sun is in a phase of virtually no solar activity, so, yes, I expect the climate to change but it's hardly anything humans can affect, one way or another.http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-257438069
 
@HollyHobby:  The "year without a summer" in 1816 was the result of a massive volcano eruption in Indonesia.  It followed a series of smaller eruptions.  The combined dust/debris in the atmosphere shaded the earth, temperatures dropped and crops were devastated.  This was the basis for the concept of a  "nuclear winter" during the Cold War.BTW, since it was very rainy and cold that summer, many people stayed sheltered inside as much as possible.  During a Swiss vacation, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and other friends challenged each other to write the scariest story.  Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Lord Byron wrote A Fragment and the poem Darkness.  A Fragment was then used as the basis for The Vampyre (written by another friend at the Swiss vacation), which lead to Dracula by Bram Stoker.So Lord Byron wrote about the "year without a summer" from actual experience while he sheltered from it, and Frankenstein was "born" during that summer.
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 8, '15 1:53pm  
I agree that we need to protect our planet, but the US cannot do it alone. I have no trust in climate scientists that cannot predict the weather accurately for the next couple of days.  I certainly cannot trust what they say will happen by the end of the century.While we have the EPA (and state agencies) to control and monitor emissions in the US, no such agency or anything similar exists in most other countries.  When I worked, I was the coordinator for a meeting with representatives from South Korea.  They had build the world's largest oil refinery (at that time) and came to share (receive more than give) information on maintenance and turnarounds.  South Korea had designated a peninsula as "industrial" so no one was living too close.  They had NO environmental restrictions at all in the "industrial" area, even though the air and water left that area.  Of course, they could produce fuels much cheaper than the US because of that (and no labor laws).Other countries are jumping on board the political bandwagon of "climate change", so they can demand that the US do something while they either change nothing in their own country, or they make claims of improvement that no one can verify or confirm.  The subject of "climate change" IS very political (globally) because one of the end results is that more and more manufacturing capabilities are leaving the US and moving to other countries where there are no EPA or OSHA to affect production and profits.     I will support more environmental restrictions in the US ONLY after other countries match restrictions that we currently have.  4951
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