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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-04 04:33 PM Original message |
Greenland ice-melt 'speeding up' |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-04 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Thanks - posted this on GD as well |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-04 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. What are the implications of this? |
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Donkeyboy75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-04 10:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. All of the above, possibly. |
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Vulture (149 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-04 01:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Probably not underwater |
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smirkymonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-04 01:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Thanks for the explanation! |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 11:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Who will pollenate the crops when the bees |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 02:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. The weather will more than just "suck" in Europe |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 05:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Good input, Nick |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 02:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. thermal expansion is (not) negligible. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 04:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. OK, now for some ice-cap melting figures |
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Salviati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 11:39 AM Response to Reply #11 |
21. The (arctic) ice cap melting wouldn't raise the water level at all... |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 11:52 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That is a good point.. (my figures were for antarctic ice) |
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Salviati (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 03:11 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Yup, though it wouldn't raise the water levels... |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 11:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. The climate change, from the gulf-stream shutting down, |
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amazona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 04:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. be gentle -- I may have missed something -- have a ? about this ? |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 04:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. the salinity gradient is definitely building up |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 05:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Exactly wrong...on both counts. |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 05:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I don't follow you |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 05:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. You threw me with "increasing salinity...etc" |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 06:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. As I understand it, the gradient matters |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 06:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. No there is no correlation to a salinity gradient between latitudes. |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 05:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. This about catastrophic climate change...not, merely, weather. |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-30-04 08:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Here is a reference to the impact on ocean currents etc |
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Boomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 12:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. We may ALL have missed something |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 02:58 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Currents are measured and mapped. The data is available at noaa |
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Boomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 06:35 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. I must have been hallucinating then |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 06:50 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I believe there was some stink about cutbacks |
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Boomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 11:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Oh, I don't wonder... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-04-04 12:43 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. There's also this - rapid salinization of tropics, freshening of polar sea |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 03:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. Here is more info |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
26. clipped from Global Warming thread |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-31-04 04:41 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. more |
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indigobusiness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-04-04 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
32. Cold Current Kills Fish - Md. + Greenland Ice- Melt Update |
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