Comments on: Melting Antarctic Ice May Raise Sea Levels Less Than Previously Feared

By: Erasmussimo

Erasmussimo — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:43:03 +0000

lilwes, there are very few large creatures that live on ice. A number of seals that live on fish will rest on ice, and raise their young in nests in the ice. Polar bears eat the baby seals, so the polar bears need ice. But very few other animals need ice to live on. Penguins, for example, eat fish, but they live in very cold environments. I don’t believe that penguins have to live on ice; they can do quite well on plain old land. So the loss of the ice will not BY ITSELF cause problems for any animals except the polar bears and the seals who nest in the ice. The real problem comes from the indirect effects of the loss of ice.

By: lilwes

lilwes — Tue, 19 May 2009 01:58:28 +0000

IM not a member, IM just a kid doing extra credit for my Biology class but I was wondering, what is going to happen to the animals that live on the ice? Where will they migrate to when the ice is all nmelted away?

By: Erasmussimo

Erasmussimo — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:26:17 +0000

Michael, claiming that the earth has been cooling for ten years is rather like saying that the economy has been improving for the last 15 minutes. Climate is not weather, and true climatic changes are not apparent over time scales of less than about 30 years.

And the data clearly show lots of melting of ice in every major environment.

The forecasts of doom were not made for 2009, so you are like Caesar laughingly saying “The Ides of March are come!” Aye Caesar, but not gone.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:29:33 +0000

The global warming alarmists continue to backtrack in the face of some real research and real science. The really sad part about this fiasco is that it has severely diminished people’s faith in science and scientists in general, and that’s a pretty unsettling result. The Earth is cooling down–that is a simple, measurable fact. It has been cooling for about 10 years now, and is not warming up. The sea levels are not rising. The glaciers are not melting. The forecasts of doom did not happen. These facts go against the grain of those that are blindly following the global warming hard line, and are making a mockery of scientists and their predictions.

It’s crying ‘wolf’ very loudly when there is no wolf, and the sheep are multiplying.

By: CaptainElectron

CaptainElectron — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:53:13 +0000

It would be interesting to see a proposal to build a floating thermal ocean current fence along the West Antarctic coastline. I suspect it could be built a at a fraction of the economic cost of the various greenhouse gas reducing proposals.

By: YouRang

YouRang — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:48:29 +0000

Surely the change in the gravity that puts the worst effects at 40^o N is miniscule–an inch or 2.
And 10 ft rather than 20–big deal. And if (or a significant part) it starts galloping all at once? Landslides cause tsunamis.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:09:23 +0000

In the spirit of the Socratic method; could you please provide evidence your rant has any truth in it?

By: Socratic Method Man

Socratic Method Man — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:54:00 +0000

THANK GOODNESS.

Now we just need to worry about stripping the ozone layer, poisoning the seas and soil and filling them both with plastic granules small enough to enter the food chain, destroying arable land with erosion, killing off pollinating insects with flawed, poisonous organisms from Monsanto, and cutting down the rainforests to grow luxury products for the west to consume.

Oh, and man’s inhumanity to man.

I guess we’ll just have to make do with suffocation rather than drowning. There go my plans for the weekend!