Antarctic Ice Thaw To Flood For Decades Even Without Global Warming
Global warming does not account for the Antarctic’s Pine Island Glacier thaw dumping water into the ocean for the foreseeable decades or longer, whether or not global warming persists and whether or not human societies change their energy consumption patterns. It happened at least once before, according to glacier scientists, and it is happening again right now. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/20/us-climate-antarctica-idUSBREA1J1V620140220
The consequences of the big thaw cannot be overstated. They include rising coastal shores across every continent, meaning evacuation of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of homes; relocation of flood refugees to higher ground; and likely tensions as refugee numbers mount in places where available land remains scarce. http://www.climatecodered.org/2010/01/pine-island-glacier-loss-must-force.html
That’s just the tip of the consequences, however. With the net increase in ocean water, the capacity of the planet to store energy increases, meaning weather patterns will shift, first along coasts, but soon, that is, within a few decades, across plains, along the mountain ranges, and in every jungle, desert, and steppe region there is. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v4/n2/full/nclimate2094.html
Here at http://HamiltonFinanceServices.com historically we have joined with other organizations to promote awareness of global warming trends, accepting the predominant sentiment that if societies could change their energy consumption patterns, effects of warming might be delayed, minimized, or better, controlled. http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/fcons/fcons4.asp With the latest reports of Antarctic thawing on Pine Island, however, a new priority has emerged. We, meaning all of humanity, must move away from coastal shores en masse…NOW.
That’s the view in our corner, but what do you think?
hamilton.jerry
