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Alastair McDonald wrote:
> Unless we reduce the
> CO2 levels or do something else to cool the planet, then the melting
> of the Greenland ice will speed up and it will soon become a total
> loss.
And why would that be a bad thing? (I take it you mean it would be?)
I mean apart from not being able to ski around so much. Wouldn't
things get green and grow again? And if you're going to talk about sea
levels rising, how do you know the two are related? How do we know how
much water is lost to space? And what controls the ambient norms for
any such loss? Surely it's far too simplistic to say melting ice
controls sea-level. Sure it might make it rise, or try to, ..but what
keeps it where it is normally? Certainly not the amount of ice and
snow building up on glaciers and ice caps. If it's a simple budget
exchange like that then there's nothing to worry about, is there? You
just go down and lie on the new bit of beach when the ice cap grows,
and go home when it melts. Why all the oohing and ahhing over melting
ice, instead of over wet stones on the beach?
Why is this such a beat up? Ice melts. It's what it was born to do.
(Don't everybody all fart at once now.)
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> Cheers, Alastair.
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