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Offline thundley4

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Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« on: October 31, 2009, 04:45:37 PM »
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The scariest story told this Halloween week had nothing to do with ghosts, goblins, or zombies, though it was certainly dripping with huge gobs of Gore.  In fact -- the most terrifying words screeched in the past seven days came from the master of environmental horror himself.

According to Arab Internet services company Maktoob.com, our favorite greenhouse gasbag spent Tuesday afternoon outlining the reasons why attendees of the Leaders in Dubai Business Forum must change their wicked gas-guzzling ways:

“The North Pole ice cap is 40 percent gone already and could be completely and totally gone in the winter months in the next 5 to 10 years.”

Such thaw, cautioned Gore, “could increase sea levels by 67 metres” and that “each one metre of sea level rise (SLR) is associated with 100 million climate refugees in the world.” That’s up a full 47 meters from the already horrifying predictions he’s made previously.

Incidentally, a climate refugee (or “environmentally induced migrant” as the UN would prefer we refer to them) is a person forced to move to a new country by global warming related environmental disasters.  Where the whacky climate refugees per meter SLR figure came from is anybody’s guess.
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WTF? The ManBearPig claims the North Pole is already 40% gone, yet sea levels haven't risen significantly, if at all. Yet we are to believe that if the other 60% melts, the sea level will rise 220 feet in 10 years?   Where is this global warming that Owl Boor is still going on about?  Has he  completely lost his mind and now believes everything he says?
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2009, 04:51:33 PM »
Does he realize that the moisture content of snow in the Arctic and Antarctic regions is about zip point shit and if every bit of it melted, it wouldn't raise sea level 2 feet, let alone 220?  Does he really understand just HOW much water is in a volume of 220 feet by 140 MILLION SQUARE MILES???

Does he understand that 7/8 of the ice caps are UNDERWATER?  And that if ice melts, it occupies a SMALLER volume as water?  Or is he just getting desperate to sell some more snake oil?

Ah....
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2009, 05:30:11 PM »
That idiot should be a laughingstock, yet they still quote every moronic thing he says.
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2009, 06:33:20 AM »
Well hell, I thought I got a good deal on this house because they wanted to sell it quick.
Damned if I knew it was because Al Bore thinks it's 35 ft underwater. You learn something new every day.  :whatever:
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2009, 06:52:59 AM »
Hey Al fill a glass 3/4 of water and put an ice cube in it then measure the liquid level.
Set off to the side and let the ice cube melt then measure the liquid level.

Now as far as ice over land melting there would be a runoff but that also has to take into account evaporation to offset it.

Does anyone know what the models show in that respect?
Would Greenland becoming green again result in increased sea levels or the weather systems resulting from that cause greater rainfalls in inland parts of Europe?
My uninformed and probably ignorant guess is that even if all this global warming stuff was 100% true the Earths ecosystems would deal with it sans the catastrophic results claimed.
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2009, 07:37:04 AM »
come on, people...

algore won the noble peace prize for the best powerpoint presentation ever in the service of peace powerpoint presentations.

they don't just give that there noble peace prize to anyone. 

you have to...  ummm...  no.  ummm... wait...  ummm...  omg...

hell, i guess they do!




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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2009, 07:47:10 AM »
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2009, 08:52:20 AM »
you can't make sweeping policy changes that steal money and liberty if you don't have a panic...
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Re: Gore Gone Wild: Predicts 220 Foot Sea Level Rise in 10 years
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2009, 10:00:06 AM »
As I have often said on this topic, even if he were right, it would mean things were irreverible and there would be no point at all to so-called GHG emission controls.

Only melting of ice on land would have the effect of raising ocean levels, which is mainly continental Antarctica and the Greenland ice cap.  They would create a rise on that order if completely melted, from what I have read. 

However, any floating ice including the Arctic ice cap or the Antarctic ice shelves would have no net effect at all, they are already displacing as much water as the amount they would yield if melted.
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