From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 15:33:57 MDT
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 11:33 am, Charles
> Hixson wrote:
>
> > spike66 wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> Scientists seem to agree on at least one aspect
> of global warming: any
> >> sea level change will be gradual. No single
> person will notice much
> >> sea
> >> level rise in their natural lifetimes. If this
> phenomenon is
> >> presented as
> >
> >> ...
> >
> > Unfortunately, I don't believe that there is the
> kind of unanimity that
> > you are predicting. And I don't believe that it
> would be warranted.
> > Geologists tend, by and large, to not consider
> that extensive changes
> > could happen rapidly. This probably dates back to
> the Theory of
> > Uniformity (Lyle). But that's not what the
> evidence looks like.
On the contrary, that's exactly what the evidence
looks like. All of the Catastrophe Theory proponents
and papers have originated out of a bunch of
oceanographers at the University of Washington, and
research in Antarctica and Greenland over the last
several years has pretty much debunked their claims.
The 'accelerated ice flow rates' they claim indicates
an impending collapse turns out to be the result of
increases in ice depth that occured back in 1200 AD
during the 'Little Ice Age'. It will be 600 years
before the pollution of the last century to affect ice
flow rates around the South Pole.
THe fact is that Antarctica's ice cap is highly stable
(it's been totally stable for the last 14 million
years) and will continue to become more stable and
colder as long as the continent is tectonically
drifting away from South America and remains within
the polar circle region. The 'ice line' is currently
over 250 meters below sea level within the ice cap
boundaries, and it will require a significant amount
of oceanic warming to raise that enough to undermine
the less secure of the two ice caps in Antarctica.
The circumpolar oceanic and wind currents seal the
continent off from the rest of the world, and the
Katabatic winds drift outward from the center of the
continent after dropping down from the stratosphere,
where they've dumped their heat to space.
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