10-14-2017, 08:07 PM
(10-13-2017, 10:17 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: PBR, I know you claim to have autism but even you have to understand that warmer temperatures do not result in more ice. After all, you're not Eric whose scientific understanding seems to be stuck in the seventeenth century.
The ice sheet upon the Arctic Ocean can melt with little influence upon the sea level. It may be expansive, but it is also thin. The Greenland ice cap is much deeper even if it looks less impressive on the map. But there is much water in the ice, and it is not in equilibrium with current conditions. In short, as it disappears it will disappear permanently.
The Antarctic ice cap is the vast majority of the world's ice -- and fresh water. The maps show that Antarctica can evade deglaciation as the Greenland Ice Cap shrinks and as the ice sheet atop the Arctic Ocean largely disappears. As it is, the bulk of the ice in Antarctica is in East Antarctica, that is the larger share of the continent that lies due south of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica. Ice has been melting in West Antarctica (the comparatively small part of Antarctica south of the Americas) but East Antarctica has been getting even more precipitation. That precipitation is ice. The ice cap of East Antarctica seems to be getting thicker.
In any event, the Antarctic Convergence that separates cool mid-latitude waters from the colder waters of the Antarctic shows no sign of going away. Less ice in the Arctic will put more water vapor in the air, and some of that water vapor will still reach East Antarctica and precipitate as ice.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.