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See that, Chuck had no trouble at all explaining away the increasing ice in Antarctica. He just proved it is all fake news from NASA etc. by posting about the shrinking glaciers in Canada. Because obviously Canada is now part of Antarctica. See how easy that was. He has an answer to every inconvenient question.
Unfortunately, they never have anything whatsoever to do with the original question.
However, if you are looking for some more inconvenient questions to ignore, could you tell us when the glaciers in the Rockies started retreating? And how many people will have to go without water if they were to stop retreating?
Is it wise or sustainable policy to be relying on water from glacier fed rivers to start with, when the users (according to the article) require more water than can be provided without the melting? 3 options, either the glaciers don't melt at all, and there isn't enough water downstream, or the glaciers grow and there is even less water downstream, or the status quo where the glaciers retreat and provide enough water for the populations relying on them but only for a short period of time until they run out. I don't see an option here that has a happy ending for those relying on glacier fed rivers. Regardless of temperature changes, or the causes of them, this activity is not sustainable, and it gets even worse if we somehow had the power to cool the climate and stop the melting.
Please offer a solution.
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Satellites show world’s mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-satellites-show-worlds-mountain-glaciers-are-melting-faster-than-ever/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-satellites-show-worlds-mountain-glaciers-are-melting-faster-than-ever/
Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31 per cent more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world’s mountain glaciers.
Scientists blame human-caused climate change.
Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than 328 billion tons (298 billion metric tons) of ice and snow per year since 2015, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature. That’s enough melt flowing into the world’s rising oceans to put Switzerland under almost 24 feet (7.2 metres) of water each year.
The annual melt rate from 2015 to 2019 is 78 billion more tons (71 billion metric tons) a year than it was from 2000 to 2004. Global thinning rates, different than volume of water lost, doubled in the last 20 years and “that’s enormous,†said Romain Hugonnet, a glaciologist at ETH Zurich and the University of Toulouse in France who led the study.
Half the world’s glacial loss is coming from the United States and Canada.
Alaska’s melt rates are “among the highest on the planet,†with the Columbia glacier retreating about 115 feet (35 metres) a year, Hugonnet said.
Almost all the world’s glaciers are melting, even ones in Tibet that used to be stable, the study found. Except for a few in Iceland and Scandinavia that are fed by increased precipitation, the melt rates are accelerating around the world.
The near-uniform melting “mirrors the global increase in temperature†and is from the burning of coal, oil and gas, Hugonnet said. Some smaller glaciers are disappearing entirely. Two years ago, scientists, activists and government officials in Iceland held a funeral for a small glacier."
David Schindler was well aware of the decline of glaciers in the rockies and the resulting impacts on fresh water. Rates of ice loss vary in different parts of the world. Antartica for example has a much slower loss occurring than parts of the arctic that were explained in the article I posted.Last edited by chuckChuck; Apr 29, 2021, 06:56.
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Originally posted by chuckChuck View PostDavid Schindler was well aware of the decline of glaciers in the rockies and the resulting impacts on fresh water. Rates of ice loss vary in different parts of the world. Antartica for example has a much slower loss occurring than parts of the arctic that were explained in the article I posted.
So now ice gain in Antarctica ( As per NASA), is much slower loss.
Where did you study math?
How is your diet going?
Great, although I lost a lot less weight this month than last, Last month I lost 3 lbs, but I only lost negative 5 lbs this month.
You didn't address my concerns about unsustainable water usage from glacier fed rivers. What will they do for water if the glaciers stop melting, start growing, or disappear?
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A5, rabid deniers such as yourself shouldn't be lecturing about lack of scientific understanding! The "we are going to run out of CO2 idea" doesn't play well in public or amongst scientists. LOL
You can cling to slower ice loss in the antarctic to try to make your case that human caused climate change isn't happening, but nobody takes you seriously. Just another fringe conspiracy theorist.
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Originally posted by chuckChuck View Post
You can cling to slower ice loss in the antarctic
NASA claims it is gaining ice.
Do you understand the differenc between slower loss, and gain?
I used short simple sentences to help you out.
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Originally posted by chuckChuck View PostA5, rabid deniers such as yourself shouldn't be lecturing about lack of scientific understanding! The "we are going to run out of CO2 idea" doesn't play well in public or amongst scientists. LOL
You can cling to slower ice loss in the antarctic to try to make your case that human caused climate change isn't happening, but nobody takes you seriously. Just another fringe conspiracy theorist.
Do the zelots expect that to happen at the new 2030 targets or the 2050 target?
Or do we have to wait for the C02 levels to drop in about 1000+ years as all those hockey stick charts you like to post show has supposedly happened in the past when levels wern't as high as you are predicting?
1000 yrs ago Mayan civilization was at it's peak.
Wonder is they will be obsessing over C02 1000 yrs from now?
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