A 2.5% increase in sea-levels may not sound a lot but for coastal areas and low lying land it would be devastating!!
Where did you get a 2.5% increase in sea level from?
Why is this bad?
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Where did you get a 2.5% increase in sea level from?
One point,
While global warming & cooling happens on a regular basis - the concern in this case is more based around the speed in which it's occurring (the climate change crowd believe).
Animal life on earth is very good at adaptive to slow changes in the eco-system - but quick changes not so much.
The earth will be fine no matter what, the question is - will we wipe out half of our population as a result of our ****less attitude towards our planet.
Sea pollution is a bigger issue (which seems to be ignored) along with massively depleting fish stocks & the ravaging of arable land globally at an incredibly alarming rate (due to modern farming methods) which will most certainly result in food shortages in the near future.
I'm far more concerned about the above, but it's not as catchy so get's ignored.
While global warming & cooling happens on a regular basis - the concern in this case is more based around the speed in which it's occurring (the climate change crowd believe).
Animal life on earth is very good at adaptive to slow changes in the eco-system - but quick changes not so much.
The earth will be fine no matter what, the question is - will we wipe out half of our population as a result of our ****less attitude towards our planet.
Sea pollution is a bigger issue (which seems to be ignored) along with massively depleting fish stocks & the ravaging of arable land globally at an incredibly alarming rate (due to modern farming methods) which will most certainly result in food shortages in the near future.
I'm far more concerned about the above, but it's not as catchy so get's ignored.
Better than you do obviously
Fresh water and salt water have a different density
That's the pessimist scientist measuring there, with the rule at a random 0.
Glass half empty and all that.
You do know that a significant portion of ice is located on land near the sea.
It's actually very possible for melting ice to increase the sea level - do you understand science?.
Also,
"In a paper titled "The Melting of Floating Ice will Raise the Ocean Level" submitted to Geophysical Journal International, Noerdlinger demonstrates that melt water from sea ice and floating ice shelves could add 2.6% more water to the ocean than the water displaced by the ice, or the equivalent of approximately 4 centimeters (1.57 inches) of sea-level rise."
Better than you do obviously
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Fresh water and salt water have a different density
Sigh.
Read, learn. I can't be bothered retyping it.
http://wikivar.com/2010/12/09/will-global-sea-levels-rise-as-the-arctic-melts/
We're not discussing that though.
Perhaps we should just make sure though - you know.. just incase?
I disagree. It is possible that thermal increases will affect sea level, but not due to melting Arctic ice.
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Sure, if it has no impacts on the lives of people. However that's not the case.
It's like not leaving your house just in case you get run over.
The research and paper that Professor Peter Noerdlinger released, and actually I just looked it up and it's 2.6% and not 2.5!
...and was it due to one large calving event?
Well, it will increase it by something.
If it's by enough to be a problem is another matter.
If we did get global warning to the scale which caused the Arctic to melt, we would also lose most of the ice on the land near the sea in the northern hemisphere.
While I doubt it would do a massive amount, in some parts of the world a tiny chance is enough to wash out land.
I'm not saying it's going to destroy/drown the world, but it will have a an impact.
No, that was for everything (IIRC). - in isolation this event will cause nothing of significance.
To be honest, we will have poisoned the ocean & our farming land before we have to worry about global warming anyway at this rate.
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You were saying that icebergs melting have no effect on sea levels as were others, you were wrong, and I provided evidence/research and even physical example/pictures categorically proving you were wrong!
Stop splitting hairs and be happy you no longer have incorrect views/data on icebergs melting and sea-levels!
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And people are incapable of moving now?
Again, this is only a potential problem because of over population globally. The shorelines of the continents have been changing for centuries, people just moved before but as the world gets ever more crowded it makes that harder to do.
A huge number of these coastal areas are the poorest of the poor and they can't simply up-sticks and move somewhere!
Plus they rely on the sea/coastline for their survival
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What? I was suggesting we make sure that we are doing everything we can to investigate the future health of our planet. Just incase.
Well, as most of the worlds population live near the sea - also not everybody lives in a developed country with a reasonable level of social mobility.
I agree population growth is a bigger issue, along with many others - but global sea levels rising will result in the displacement & deaths of a number of people.
The problem is also based around land ownership, historically people could just move on & rebuild a house & use the land to survive on.
Everything is owned now, it's not that simple.
Where did i say that?
You quoted an incorrect figure, and I said that this particular event would have not much impact at all. A fact.
That you argued against something I hadn't said makes no odds.