Sea-level doom from Antarctic melting

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  1. PriusTech

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    I had hopes for Howard Dean also, I think he threatened to regulate the media? Then they exaggerated "the Dean scream" to make him look bad.

    Mark Twain is good

    Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

    It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.

    Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself.

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    It's easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled.
    I like that one, so true ..... Remember the tobacco industries effort they put into lying to everyone about the affects of smoking, then the cotton industry about the dangers of cannabis hemp? How many still believe the lies rather than accept they were fooled ......

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    When has seal level ever remained constant?
     
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    At least half the time it was on the rise, and about half the time it has fallen.
     
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    It had been relatively stable for several millennia. The last time it was changing this rapidly was during the rapid glacial meltoff that marked the end of the last Ice Age. But then it was rising from a level more than 100 meters lower than today.
     
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    If this sounds like denial, it's not; but the carbon cycle is unsustainably out of balance.
    But it's foolish to try to make the climate static. It never has been in 4.5 billion years.
     
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    Who was aiming for static?

    The speed of this anthropomorphic climate change is the great concern, exceeded only by certain cataclysms such as asteroid impacts, and the exit from (but not entrance to) Ice Ages, or at least the most recent Ice Age. Over Earth history, it appears that most other climate changes have been far slower.

    Fast climate changes appear to be associated with mass extinctions. Biological evolution doesn't adapt nearly as well to these speeds.
     
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    Whenever you quote me, my first thought is "what now...". You never disappoint.
     
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    I'm advising our grandchildren to buy at altitude
     
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    Based on the slow rate, I would change to a minimum 100 ft above sea level. Future sea view property outside of hurricane surge range.

    Bob Wilson