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http://news.discovery.com/earth/arctic-warms-antarctic-ice-shelves-weaken-160209.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0210/What-s-going-on-with-polar-ice-sheets
>With the Arctic and Antarctic experiencing below average, if not record-low, sea-ice coverage, climate and polar researchers are scrambling to quantify how ice-loss could effect global sea levels.
>http://www.ocregister.com/articles/ice-703354-antarctica-shelf.html
>In 2014, scientists revealed that key parts of remote West Antarctica, may have been destabilized by warm ocean waters reaching the bases of vast submarine glaciers and melting them from below. West Antarctica, as a whole, contains nearly 11 feet of potential sea level rise. And last year, research hinted that a similar vulnerability may exist for the truly gigantic Totten Glacier of East Antarctica.
>Now, in a study in Nature Climate Change, researchers provide a new way of looking at how vulnerable Antarctica’s ice is - and the approach, unfortunately, largely reinforces the conclusions of the prior studies.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/a-full-catalog-of-the-antarctic-ice-shelves-that-should-terrify-us/
http://www.lighthousenewsdaily.com/arctic-sea-record-low/4470/
>According to a recent report by National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic Sea ice hits record low level this year, averaging 1.53 million square kilometers.
>The sea ice extent observed by satellites was much lower than the 1981-2010 average of 402,000 square miles. Experts believe that this situation was caused by high air temperatures travelling over the Arctic Ocean and a powerful negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation during the first few weeks of January.
http://nhv.us/content/16024255-arctic-and-antarctic-ice-extents-decline-january-2016
http://www.albanydailystar.com/science/climate-changing-destabilized-antartic-ice-shelfs-risk-sea-level-rise-16254.html
>>22468
>tfw last true wilderness will be destroyed in my lifetime
Well... fuck.
earth gets warm sometimes who cares
just another place to get oil
>>22498
>*future naval battleground for WWIII
*ftfy
I saw this and thought "Well at least Greenland is still okay..." Then I saw this:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/melting-greenland-ice-changing-ocean-circulation-earth-s-gravitational-field-1.3437904
>>22468
This kills the planet.penis
Waterworld here i come!
>>22539
Not really, it'll make living on earth this much harder but it doesn't mean everything is lost. Many places in Canada are basically inhabited because of the low temperatures.
Middle east, africa and brazil are utterly fucked though, once temperatures hit 60 degrees we will see people dying b the thousands every day.
>>22553
tfw got friends in botswana namibia and south africa
feels bad man.
>>22553
Brazil isn't a 3rd world country. Temperature change can't harm Brazil!
>>22575
Equatorial temperatures would rise dramatically in some inland circumstances.
Or in Brazillian:
Temperaturas equatoriais subiria drasticamente em algumas circunstâncias interiores huehuehuehue.
>>22580
>huehuehuehue
Huehue
>>22553
Did you mean "UN-inhabited because of low temperatures"?
>>22506
>tfw future COD games will be just battleships in icy oceans
>>22506
Hopefully with sex-thru-gels there will be world peace...
How the hell is melting ice affecting sea levels again? When ice melts in water it does not change the level of water.
Buoyancy how does it work?
>>22769
There's this country called greenland, and a continent called antarctica
>>22774
You know that Greenland used to be green right? In the recent past?
>>22775
Not for the last 400000 years.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/greenland-used-to-be-green.htm
>>22776
Catastrophic. Even though there is no more carbon on the planet than in the time of earths greatest biodiversity.
Even though we could.completely solve spectral absorption with a few billion dollars worth of water spraying ships. But no, we need to all turn over and die because muh green movement.
>>22769
>dense frozen water melts
>It becomes a less dense liquid
Did you drop out of school serious question
>>22553
>we will see people dying b the thousands every day.
you mean we'll see thousands of refugees
>>22775
you know that greenland being called greenland was eric the red top tier trolling the world right?
>>22779
2/10 made me seriously reply.
Ice is less dense than liquid water. That is why it floats.
Because of the reason buoyancy works--the force created is equal to the volume displaced by the object vs the force of gravity forcing the object into the liquid...
The amount of water displaced by a different amount of water is exactly the same as the amount of water it is. (with some tiny considerations given to ice sheets and glacoers not actually being hypothetically pure water, but being irrelevant ina vessel the size of the earth anyway)
Get a glass of ice water, put all the ice you want in it. Mark the level of water. Let it melt. It's exactly the same.
>>22787
It was a successful settlement for hundreds of years. Winters got too cold and long and they weren't able to keep their cows fed and they died off.
The warm anomaly in the 980s resulted in more arable land, and a population boom, not a mass starvation. The starvation came from the cold.
>>22769
It's melting the Glacial Ice and Ice Caps too. The Ice that was on land is now in the ocean and staying there.
>>22777
The difference between the co2 highs of the Mesozoic or whatever geologic period it was, is that now the world is covered in people. Who kind of need the weather to be reasonably predictable to grow food. And not have their huts or houses washed away by floods. The planet will do fine with whatever comes; we may not.
And I don't see anyone putting fleets of water-spraying ships into the oceans. (What are they using for fuel, by the way?)
>>22769
Not the floating sea ice or floating glacial (fresh water) ice - the ice caps on Greenland & Antarctica and glaciers everywhere above the sea.
And even the sea ice: it reflects light to space when it exists. When it is missing, the sea gets warmer, melting the fresh-water ice faster.
>>22485
Sibera and most of russia is more wild than artica.
>>22468
>A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
>>22996
>The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.
Instead of nitpicking a 2013 study that has no bearing on the 2016 measurements, how about you nitpick the 2016 study that found antarctic sea ice to be below average?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-weather-braun-idUSKCN0UP19T20160113
>The Antarctic ice sheet has stopped expanding for the first time in four years, and in fact, sea ice extent has dipped below average levels.
>The Antarctic ice sheet holds roughly 61 percent of the Earth’s fresh water, and despite the mass shrinking of its Arctic cousin over the last decade, the Antarctic has experienced several periods of growth over the same time frame.
>At the start of 2015, Antarctic sea ice extent was at all-time high levels for the time of year since records began in 1979, extremely far above the long-term mean. Sea ice remained anomalously high until July, when rapid shrinking began (tmsnrt.rs/1OSKRg3).
>In August 2015, monthly sea ice extent fell below average levels for the first time since November 2011. For the duration of 2015, sea ice extent hovered very close to average levels.
>By Jan. 6, even though sea ice was only a sliver below 30-year averages for the date, it measured at the lowest relative levels in 10 years.
>>22982
not antarctica
