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| How Melting Glaciers Have Accelerated A Shift In Earth's Axis <--- Golly - This Ain't Jolly |
| 2021-05-13 |
| [TheGuardian] The redistribution of water has caused the planet to lean and wobble, resulting in the poles moving. Global Warming: The Glacier Of Greatest Concern - Thwaites Glacier – Present [AntacticSun.usap] Thwaites Glacier is melting fast because of climate change, causing sea levels to rise the world over. Of all the world's glaciers, it's the one that scientists are most worried that a catastrophic collapse could happen quickly and affect coastal regions everywhere. "It's not ’If sea level is going to go up,' it's ’When and how much,'" said Erin Pettit of Oregon State University. "The Thwaites project is focused specifically on the sea level rise question and trying to narrow down that." Thwaites Glacier is a mass of ice the size of Florida along the coast of West Antarctica. It's gradually flowing into the ocean, and since the 1970s, scientists have watched as its pace is speeding up, adding more grounded ice into the ocean each year. "There's a very intimate connection between sea level and glacier volume," said Sridhar Anandakrishnan of Pennsylvania State University. "These two exchange water continuously, water goes from the ocean to the ice sheet and from the ice sheet back to the ocean... If that exchange is unequal, and in this case if more water leaves the glacier and goes into the ocean, than comes back from the ocean to the glacier, then sea level rises." That sea level rise isn't confined to remote areas of the globe, but spreads out and affects every coastline in the world. So far the glacier has only contributed a few millimeters of sea level rise, but scientists worry that if the whole West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses, it could rise significantly more. More @ Link |
| Posted by:Cratelet Flefrert4908 |
| #9 Went big on purchasing oceanfront property in Kansas. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-05-13 18:56 |
| #8 No problem! We'll just tip Guam over to compensate. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-05-13 16:46 |
| #7 I'm pretty sure NYC is under water. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-05-13 16:13 |
| #6 The poles will shift/flip one day. |
| Posted by: Clem 2021-05-13 13:47 |
| #4 No, it's all true! I've lost balance and fallen on my arse twice already since reading this. Spilled my fifth drink all over the rug... |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-05-13 11:36 |
| #3 I thought Greta Thunberg's temper tantrums caused the wobble. Silly me! |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-05-13 11:21 |
| #2 If it's a 'climate change' article by the Guardian, it's sensationalist garbage. They even quote one of Michael Mann's colleagues at Penn State, giving it that final cherry on top of the soft-serve dogshit sundae. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-05-13 08:56 |
| #1 NASA was discussing this 5 years ago. EARTH WOBBLE NASA Research conclusion "Changes in polar ice appeared to have no relationship to the wobble—only changes in water on land. Dry years in Eurasia, for example, corresponded to eastward swings, while wet years corresponded to westward swings." In short Melted Ice increases Rain, Rain decreases Droughts, Aquifers fill and the wobble changes climates according to 6 to 14 year Wet/Dry cycles. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-13 06:18 |