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posted by mrpg on Monday November 27 2017, @07:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-are-doomed dept.

We may be headed for an ice apocalypse which could result in the flooding of coastal cities before the end of this century. Glaciers in Antarctica may break and release ice, exposing taller cliffs, resulting in faster melting.

"In the past few years, scientists have identified marine ice-cliff instability as a feedback loop that could kickstart the disintegration of the entire West Antarctic ice sheet this century — much more quickly than previously thought."

[...] A wholesale collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites would set off a catastrophe. Giant icebergs would stream away from Antarctica like a parade of frozen soldiers. All over the world, high tides would creep higher, slowly burying every shoreline on the planet, flooding coastal cities and creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by ankh on Tuesday November 28 2017, @02:34AM (1 child)

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  • (Score: 2) by gottabeme on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:14AM

    by gottabeme (1531) on Wednesday November 29 2017, @03:14AM (#602792)

    Absolute garbage. He advocated lying to the public. He can't weasel out of that with silly weasel-words like "double-ethical bind," saying that, oh, the poor public can't understand these advanced concepts, so we have to use meeeeeeetaphorrrrs, but that's not lyyyyyying, it's solving an ethical dilemma.

    Pathetic.

    Besides, the proof is in the pudding: "offer[ing] up scary scenarios, mak[ing] simplified, dramatic statements, and mak[ing] little mention of any doubts we might have" is exactly what the mass media, IPCC, and other NGOs have been doing for years. It wouldn't matter if Schneider had done an about-face and taken back every word he said--they're doing what he said, and this article is a perfect example of it.

    Filthy leftist liars.