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25 Jul 2012, 2:23 pm

supposably this happens every 150 years and this year is on schedule.

http://www.examiner.com/article/unprece ... hin-4-days

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25 Jul 2012, 2:36 pm

Umm...is that the best source available? That doesn't sound right- that ice is over 2 miles thick in places. Unfortunately I don't have time to play Google-fu right now.


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25 Jul 2012, 2:48 pm

Wikipedia wrote:
On April 14, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is christened. It then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before in reverse direction (from New York City, USA to Southampton, England). During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of global warming cause the Helheim Glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a giant tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the ship, while the passengers are partying in the dining saloon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f720MNvOeVc


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25 Jul 2012, 3:33 pm

I read the article & from what I understand, there was some melting over 97% of the ice cap surface. That's a far cry from the ice cap losing 97% of its volume, which would indeed be calamitous. But that's what might seem to be the case if one looks only at the headline rather than the article.



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25 Jul 2012, 3:47 pm

I first spotted the article in accuweather.com if you want that source instead.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/home-gard ... ence/68450

Billy, you are right, when I re-read it, it mentioned 97 percent of the Surface of the ice sheet. I misread, I thought by surface it meant that the ice sheet being the surface of greenland. Thank you for pointing that out.

neverless, it only happens every 150 years...


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25 Jul 2012, 6:18 pm

No problem Jojo. It's well established that the Earth & in particular the Arctic are warming, & that the Greenland ice cap is shrinking. Myself, I got no use for the climate-change deniers, but it's important to have the facts straight so as not to play into their hands.



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25 Jul 2012, 6:40 pm

Okay, that one makes sense! :)


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26 Jul 2012, 9:21 am

If 97 percent of the ice on Greenland melted they would be wading in mid-town Manhattan by now.

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26 Jul 2012, 10:46 am

Billybones wrote:
No problem Jojo. It's well established that the Earth & in particular the Arctic are warming, & that the Greenland ice cap is shrinking. Myself, I got no use for the climate-change deniers, but it's important to have the facts straight so as not to play into their hands.


true. As far as global warming goes...I know that it is happening, but whether it is even partially man-influenced, I am not sure. I am not going to say man is the cause of it because the earth has a long history of coolings and warmings, however I am unsure whether man's activities has been hastening a warming already taking place.

because the data on both sides have been monkeyed with, nobody really knows what is going on.

Inventor says we are due to be hit by an asteroid(s) which if that is the case then I guess it doesnt matter what the long range predictions are.

John and Ruveyn, LoL....gotta read the fine print sometimes :oops:


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26 Jul 2012, 11:04 am

How bizarre, does anyone know why it's a 150'ish year cycle, is it linked to volcanic activity, solar cycle or orbital position etc?

Seems very odd to see such a large jump in melt when next door the arctic pack melt is just behaving normally.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/



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26 Jul 2012, 1:52 pm

well, its 2012 right.



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26 Jul 2012, 5:41 pm

If 97% of the ice sheet over Greenland had turned to water then sea level would have risen significantly. As in, goodbye Maldives and lower Manhattan.



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26 Jul 2012, 7:42 pm

Also, come to think of it, they've been having 24 hour sun up there.

And by 'surface' ice they meant literally the very top layer, yes? That's the only way I could think of this making sense. XI We'd all be drowning if the north pole melted in less than a week.



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27 Jul 2012, 9:03 am

HisDivineMajesty wrote:
Wikipedia wrote:
On April 14, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is christened. It then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before in reverse direction (from New York City, USA to Southampton, England). During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of global warming cause the Helheim Glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a giant tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the ship, while the passengers are partying in the dining saloon.


The glacier is already getting into position for when Titanic II goes on her maiden voyage. :lol:


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27 Jul 2012, 11:31 pm

persian85033 wrote:
HisDivineMajesty wrote:
Wikipedia wrote:
On April 14, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is christened. It then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before in reverse direction (from New York City, USA to Southampton, England). During the Atlantic crossing, the effects of global warming cause the Helheim Glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a giant tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the ship, while the passengers are partying in the dining saloon.


The glacier is already getting into position for when Titanic II goes on her maiden voyage. :lol:


I watched that on discovery about how everything is period about it...I just hope it does not share the same fate, with the greenland ice calving more so than usual, it is kinda eerie.

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