Re: OT: is the AGW bubble about to burst?

On Aug 12, 8:33 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Losing a bunch of coastal cities to rising sea levels isn't anybody's idea of
a good thing.

Funny how that's not happenning.

Sea levels are rising. New Orleans has already got its feet wet.

Nothing to do with sea level rise.

But global warming is probably already boosting hurricanes, and
there's every reason to expect that it will do more for them as time
goes on.

And why are the Maldives under water ?

There's a lot of argument about the speed with which the Antarctic and
Greenland ice sheets are going to slide off into the ocean. I'm not
planning any investments in waterfront property.

Neither are 'sliding' anywhere. The calfing of icebergs is NORMAL !

Sure, it's just that there is more of them these days.

Neither are likely to melt either. The average temp in Antarctica is -20C ! It's pure
catastrophism (and junk science) to suggest they're melting.

They don't have to melt - at least not in the Antarctic - to raise the
water level. The floating ice shelves around the Anarctic are already
breaking up, which means that ice is flowing off the Antarctic
mainland appreciably faster than it used to.

The arguments are mostly about what further global warming will do to
the rate that at which the ice slides across Greenland and Antarctica.
It doesn't have to melt in place to create a problem.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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