ok Bingo, i'm gonna quit this now because you obviously haven't read ANY of the articles i've posted. you know no more than i do about the REALITY of the situation, yet you think you know what you talk about. reading a couple of pop articles is not knowledge. HOW MUCH of that polar ice is ABOVE sea level? that's the only water that can have any effect on sea levels.
also, once more, i quote your own article posted earlier: "Millions of square miles of sea ice surround Antarctica; the extent annually experiences a five-fold increase and decrease, with the winter maximum more than doubling the entire Antarctic region's area of ice coverage." this from
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/antpanel/3enviro.htm what does this mean? how can you spout out a figure like 11% of the ice is in sea ice shelves? the shelves are NOT the only ice in water in antartcica! according to your article, the ice in the water is MORE than 50%. i'll admit 70% is too high(though maybe not some years, the figure is dynamic and changes year-round) and go with that figure of 50%. now tell me how when the majority of the rest of the ice is below sea level, there can be flooding from melting? obviously, IF the ice cap's volume of water is just added to the ocean, the level would rise. but is that what would happen in a melt? are you SURE that the entire icecap melting is even possible without everyone alreay being dead long before it happened? i still say that the idea is merely fear-mongering.
YOU are the one brainwashed by cia.
fine, i shot back, and now i'll drop this in favor of good vibes here on planetz. go ahead and make your final claims of my stupidity and insanity and whatever further personal attacks are fitting. you can jump for joy to find you were right later. or not.
...but do read the links i provided and consider that there is more to the story of global warming than meets the eye.
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no, i don't believe georgie's group. i don't believe ANY of them. the scientists don't even agree. as i said, obviously, if that amount of water were ADDDED to the system, flooding is inevitable. this is a perfect example of statistics lying. if that water is already in the ocean(more than 50%) and below sea level(most of the rest), there can't be sea rise from a melt. also, according to most academics, a pole melt is almost impossible. READ THE COLORADO ST. UNIVERSITY ARTICLES. finally GWB is a strawman. he works for the same group that the heads of Japan, Russia, Germany, England, etc. work for. how else do you explain U.N. dna records being planned for every human on the face of the earth. the earth may be warming, but the issue is just another push towards global government and police state(an excuse for a global regulatory apparatus). it goes hand in hand with national ids and population control. it's a tool for the elite to blame the public's problems on the public after an engineered crisis.
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