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phelps · 06-10-2017, 03:31 PM

This is the sort of propaganda that causes people to disbelieve the hysteria around AGW.

Melting the ice in the Arctic has virtually no effect, because it isn't over land. Greenland and Antarctica is the only place that has water that could cause the oceans to rise locked in ice.

Antarctica is an average of -40C. The most hysterical predictions are that we will see... a 5C rise in temperature in the next 100 years. Virtually no ice would melt from Antarctica from that, and Greenland wouldn't see enough to cause more than a few centimeters of sea rise.

You might as well post a "this is what the earth would look like if the sun went supernova and boiled all the water off the planet", because both are about as likely to happen.

(We really should be talking about the coming cooling associated with the grand minimum, anyways.)

06-10-2017, 03:31 PM	#2
phelps Eavesdropper Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 24	Psuedoscience This is the sort of propaganda that causes people to disbelieve the hysteria around AGW. Melting the ice in the Arctic has virtually no effect, because it isn't over land. Greenland and Antarctica is the only place that has water that could cause the oceans to rise locked in ice. Antarctica is an average of -40C. The most hysterical predictions are that we will see... a 5C rise in temperature in the next 100 years. Virtually no ice would melt from Antarctica from that, and Greenland wouldn't see enough to cause more than a few centimeters of sea rise. You might as well post a "this is what the earth would look like if the sun went supernova and boiled all the water off the planet", because both are about as likely to happen. (We really should be talking about the coming cooling associated with the grand minimum, anyways.)