Climate Skepticism
The Doomsday Glacier
POSTED ON 05 JAN 22
BY JIT
Excerpt:
SOME GUY SAID IT WAS, SO THERE
The idea of ice sheets slowly melting and concomitant gradual sea level rise is not very frightening. The satellites suggest that the rate is accelerating, but the onshore gauges shrug their shoulders. Neither the accelerating rate of rise reported by the satellites nor the slow and steady creep reported by the gauges are anything for modern civilisation to fear.
But.
What if I could suddenly trump that unexciting slow rise with something that would get Cnut scampering off the beach? Or at least, the threat of a sudden rise soon, let’s say by 2030? What if an entire glacier might slide off Antarctica like a kid on a toboggan and add, let’s say, half a metre to present sea level? Are you scared yet? Why not, dammit?
I think we should call this glacier the Doomsday Glacier, just in case anybody is still refusing to wet their bed about it. It does have an ordinary name too: Thwaites Glacier.
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It is a good put down of the scaremongering over the Glacier.
The Doomsday Glacier
POSTED ON 05 JAN 22
BY JIT
Excerpt:
SOME GUY SAID IT WAS, SO THERE
The idea of ice sheets slowly melting and concomitant gradual sea level rise is not very frightening. The satellites suggest that the rate is accelerating, but the onshore gauges shrug their shoulders. Neither the accelerating rate of rise reported by the satellites nor the slow and steady creep reported by the gauges are anything for modern civilisation to fear.
But.
What if I could suddenly trump that unexciting slow rise with something that would get Cnut scampering off the beach? Or at least, the threat of a sudden rise soon, let’s say by 2030? What if an entire glacier might slide off Antarctica like a kid on a toboggan and add, let’s say, half a metre to present sea level? Are you scared yet? Why not, dammit?
I think we should call this glacier the Doomsday Glacier, just in case anybody is still refusing to wet their bed about it. It does have an ordinary name too: Thwaites Glacier.
LINK
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It is a good put down of the scaremongering over the Glacier.
“A theory that is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific.” – Karl Popper
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