The Politics Thread

@Background Pony #EF67
Perhaps yes. But the melting of the caps will be more of a “gradual leak” than a “flood”, as shown in the movie. Expect occasional, but not ginormous, floods.
This is the world now:

And this is the world, flooded:

Florida, Louisiana, the Netherlands, Denmark, Venice, and many other places will be gone. But still not enough for Waterworld to happen, unless a giant ice meteor hits Earth and melts.

@hillbe
Antarctica has 26 million cubic kilometers of ice. If Antarctica were to melt the oceans would raise 58 meters.

@hillbe
The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and contains 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice. That is, approximately 61 percent of all fresh water on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to about 58 m of sea-level rise.

Hell, even the Greenland ice sheet is 2,850,000 cubic kilometres (684,000 cu mi), voluminous enough to cause a 7.5 meter rise in sea level if it melts.

People like you are exactly why climate change is an issue. Look shit up and do research before you speak.

@hillbe
Just because it didn’t flood in one town, doesn’t mean it didn’t flood anywhere.

In June of that year, five people died as parts of the country, particularly Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Worcestershire, saw record rainfall and heavy flooding. Two months later, England had its coldest August since 1993.

@hillbe
Dude.

That is the math.

Right the fuck there.

58 meters

Just because it has yet to completely melt doesn’t mean it won’t, and people like you who continue to deny the overwhelmingly proven trend of climate change are the ones who are going to leave a world uninhabitable by our posterity.

Science is not a liberal conspiracy

A science based on a basis of lies, East Anglican Collage fudged the numbers and you think some lab looking for grant dollars wont hop on a trend to scoop up some extra bucks?
NASA isn’t the NOAA and the new religion of climate change has a very long history of crying wolf.
Do some unbiased research into the origins of Climate Change, Global Warming , Nuclear Winter, or what ever convenient name they’ll pick for the next generation. They lied before they’ll continue to do so. I ain’t buying it.