Greenland’s ice sheet could melt at much lower temperatures than previously thought, according t a new study published in the Journal of Nature Climate Change. The lives of millions of people could be threatened if the melting of land ice raises sea levels by several metres as predicted.
“Our study shows that a temperature threshold for melting [the ice sheet] exists, and that this threshold has been overestimated until now,” said scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
The team made predictions about the future behaviour of the ice sheet by using computer simulations. According to the scientists, the ice sheet could completely melt if global temperatures rise by between 0.8 and 3.2 degrees Celsius, despite previous research suggesting the ice would only be affected within the range of 1.9 to 5.1 degrees.
Greenland, which has a tenth of the world’s ice, is currently 80 percent frozen. According to previous research, global sea levels could rise by as much as 6.4 metres if the entire ice sheet melted.
“If the global temperature significantly overshoots the threshold for a long time, the ice will continue melting and not re-grow, even if the climate would, after many thousand years, return to its pre-industrial state,” team leader Andrey Ganopolski told Reuters at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
“The more we exceed the threshold, the faster it melts,” added Alexander Robinson, lead-author of the study. “If the world takes no action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the earth could warm by eight degrees Celsius. This would result in one fifth of the ice sheet melting within 500 years and a complete loss in 2,000 years,” he said.
If today would be 12000 years ago there would be panic. In news paper they would write.
‘The lives of millions of people could be threatened if the melting of land ice raises sea levels by 120 metres .’
Politicians and scientists would tell us it would be better to stay in the Ice Age. Ofcourse they would need more funding to study how bad global warming would be. Warmer weather would destroy humanity.
Ofcourse today 12000 years later we know better, don’t we?
Was climate change an impending cataclysmic event or an exciting research opportunity?
Q-How many climate change scientists does it take to change a light bulb?
A-None, but they DO have full consensus that it WILL change.
Almost all research money for climate change was into effects and almost never spent studying causes and so it wasn’t a question of honesty as to whether someone was lying or not, because they were studying the effects of a worst case scenario. The “crisis” was assumed. Would you say climate change isn’t real when you are paid to study the effects of climate change? Not only that but get this; all research money for studying effects was funded publicly and all research money into causal and denial climate change science was privately funded or more accurately, independently. Ice cores were the nails in climate change’s coffin because it turns out that there are too many ways to read them and it turns out that ice cores are not temperature dipsticks like in some Harry Potter movie. And nobody can explain the tropical fossils under the melting ice when this climate of today has never happened like this before. Dah!
Here is further evidence that climate change science was a consultant’s wet dream and immune to the words “hoax” or “lie”;
-It couldn’t be proven or disproven.
-Every single scientist had his or hers personal definition of the effects of climate change.
-There were millions of people in the global scientific community with doomed children as well and despite calling for catastrophic climate crisis, millions choose not to march to save their own children.
-How is it that there were hundreds of thousands of consensus scientists and only a dozen climate change protesters?
-These exploitive lab coat consultant’s we foolishly called saintly scientists for 26 years of needless CO2 panic, made environmentalism necessary in the first place with their pesticides that they denied for decades as being toxic.
Climate change scientists have done to science what nasty priests did for the church.
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