Cool animated map of what Earth would look like if all the ice melted

[Skwim]

CLICK ON THE MAP

 

[Laika]

Is that the theme music from the game Pandemic 2 by any chance? I'm not sure.

(edit: some really excellent graphics btw).

 

[Skwim]

Is that the theme music from the game Pandemic 2 by any chance? I'm not sure.

 

[Baladas]

This is cool, but sad.

 

[Kolibri]

And people say the earth was not Flooded in Noah's day. The water is still all here. It's just the weight of the water pushed the mountains higher and the seas deeper.

 

[Revoltingest]

I've poured over the National Geographic map showing current & flooded states. I'm sure glad I don't live in Florida, DC, Bangladesh, or the location of that new inland sea in Australiastan! I'm unqualified to convince anyone of AGW, but there sure will be a whole lotta social & political upheaval as much of countries disappear under the waves.

 

[Baladas]

I've poured over the National Geographic map showing current & flooded states. I'm sure glad I don't live in Florida, DC, Bangladesh, or the location of that new inland sea in Australiastan! I'm unqualified to convince anyone of AGW, but there sure will be a whole lotta social & political upheaval as much of countries disappear under the waves.

I was most sad about poor Ireland. That place is really special to me. I am glad to be inland though.

 

[Revoltingest]

I was most sad about poor Ireland. That place is really special to me. I am glad to be inland though.

At least you don't live in the Maldives!

 

[Baladas]

This is true.

 

[Skwim]

And people say the earth was not Flooded in Noah's day.

Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
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And the people are quite right.

The water is still all here. It's just the weight of the water pushed the mountains higher and the seas deeper.

And just where did you read such nonsense, Answers in Genesis?

 

[Ingledsva]

And the Gulf Stream Current would change causing further coastal disaster, and possible starvation in many areas.

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[sun rise]

What a great business opportunity to invest in real estate that will suddenly become valuable.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

CLICK ON THE MAP

So what happens if it the ice keeps growing like it is now?

 

[shawn001]

And people say the earth was not Flooded in Noah's day. The water is still all here. It's just the weight of the water pushed the mountains higher and the seas deeper.

No your talking about plate tectonics. "mountains higher"

 

[shawn001]

So what happens if it the ice keeps growing like it is now?

Weather and feedbacks lead to third-lowest extent | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis would have global cooling but we are still warming. Your statement is off as well. Depends on where your talking about and why.

In the Artic

"Arctic sea ice extent was the third lowest for the month of January. Ice extent remained lower than average in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk, while ice in the Barents Sea was near average. Antarctic sea ice extent declined rapidly in late January, but remains high.

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Sea ice extent in January averaged 13.62 million square kilometers (5.26 million square miles). This is 910,000 square kilometers (351,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 long-term average of 14.53 million square kilometers (5.61 million square miles), and 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) above the record low for the month observed in 2011.

This below-average Arctic extent is mainly a result of lower-than-average extent in the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. On the Atlantic side, Barents Sea ice extent is near average. This is in sharp contrast to the general pattern seen since 2004 of below average extent in this region, but above average extent in the Bering Sea. Ice extent is also near average in the East Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea.

Conditions in context

Figure 2. The graph above shows Arctic sea ice extent as of February 2, 2015, along with daily ice extent data for four previous years. 2014 to 2015 is shown in blue, 2013 to 2014 in green, 2012 to 2013 in orange, 2011 to 2012 in brown, and 2010 to 2011 in purple. The 1981 to 2010 average is in dark gray. The gray area around the average line shows the two standard deviation range of the data. Sea Ice Index data.

Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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During most of January, the Arctic Oscillation(AO) was in a strongly positive phase. When the AO is in a positive phase, sea level pressure in the Arctic is particularly low, and sea level pressure is relatively high in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Variability in Arctic sea ice conditions is strongly influenced by the phase of the AO. Typically, during the positive phase of the AO, surface winds push ice away from the shores of Siberia, leading to the formation of more young, thin ice that is prone to melting out in summer. The positive phase also tends to increase the transport of thick, multiyear ice out of the Arctic through Fram Strait.

Air temperatures (at the 925 millibar level, about 3,000 feet above the surface) were mostly above average over most of the Arctic Ocean, with positive anomalies of 4 to 6 degrees Celsius (7 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit) over the Chukchi and Bering seas on the Pacific side of the Arctic, and also over the East Greenland Sea on the Atlantic side.

January 2015 compared to previous years

Figure 3. Monthly January ice extent for 1979 to 2015 shows a decline of 3.2% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average.

Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Arctic sea ice extent for January was the third lowest in the satellite record. Through 2015, the linear rate of decline for January extent over the satellite record is 3.2% per decade.

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag




Melt extent in Greenland was well above average in 2014, tying for the 7th highest extent in the 35-year satellite record. Overall, climate patterns favored intense west coast and northwest ice sheet melting, with relatively cool conditions in the southeast.

Greenland Ice Sheet Today | Surface Melt Data presented by NSIDC



Worldwide retreat of glaciers confirmed in unprecedented detail

Worldwide retreat of glaciers confirmed in unprecedented detail | National Snow and Ice Data Center

There is more to this but I believe this is what you are referring too.

"
Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say"

Scientists say the extent of Antarctic sea ice cover is at its highest level since records began.

Satellite imagery reveals an area of about 20 million square kilometres covered by sea ice around the Antarctic continent.

Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) said the discovery was made two days ago.

"This is an area covered by sea ice which we've never seen from space before," he said.

"Thirty-five years ago the first satellites went up which were reliably telling us what area, two dimensional area, of sea ice was covered and we've never seen that before, that much area.

"That is roughly double the size of the Antarctic continent and about three times the size of Australia."


AUDIO: Researchers argue the increase in sea ice does not negate the reality of global warming. (PM)


The formation of sea ice around Antarctica every year is one of the biggest seasonal events on Earth.

The ice is generated in what scientists refer to as "sea ice factories" or polynia - areas of the ocean surface where currents and wind patterns combine to generate sea ice.


As the area covered in sea ice expands scientists have said the ice on the continent of Antarctica which is not over the ocean continues to deplete.

CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Tony Worby, said the warming atmosphere is leading to greater sea ice coverage by changing wind patterns.

"The extent of sea ice is driven by the winds around Antarctica, and we believe that they're increasing in strength and part of that is around the depletion of ozone," he said.

He said changes to sea ice levels could have implications for the entire Antarctic ecosystem.

Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


Warm water likely to accelerate Antarctic ice melt and sea level rises, Australian scientists find

Warm water likely to accelerate Antarctic ice melt and sea level rises, Australian scientists find - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Kolibri]

No your talking about plate tectonics. "mountains higher"

Of course I am talking about plate tectonics. What causes that movement? is it not pressure from above and below? Increased pressure from above would speed up plate tectonics till the earth found a new homeostasis. And if that was not enough, one can trust (if one trusts at all in the God that creates miracles), that if necessary he would speed up the process.

 

[ThePainefulTruth]

Weather and feedbacks lead to third-lowest extent | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis would have global cooling but we are still warming. Your statement is off as well. Depends on where your talking about and why.

All that from the National Snow and Ice Center. I won't call them biased, I'll let satellite and NOAA data do that:

Al Gore, wrong again – Polar ice continues to thrive | Watts Up With That?
"That Woods Hole study was confirmed by today’s NOAA Arctic radar map which shows the Arctic Ice Cap at more than 4,000,000 square miles, larger than on any December 28 in the past five years..... Antarctic ice coverage is at the highest extent since radar measurement began 35 years ago.

"NOAA’s Arctic Report Card; Update for 2014 provides similar data for the Earth’s other big ice sheet, Greenland. Data from the GRACE satellite and other sources has shown an annual average Greenland ice loss of more than 300 billion tons until 2013. That loss has now dropped sharply by 98% to 6 billion annual tons since mid 2013. A loss of 300 billion tons adds about one millimeter to sea level rise."

Climate change alarmist's cred was forever undermined by Climategate, and by the Truth of what's actually happening out there. The polar bears are thriving, sea levels aren't rising, the Sun continues to have the only noticeably effect on the climate, and the caribou are still warming themselves by the Alaska pipeline that was supposed to cause environmental harm....somehow.

And nothing has been more ironically humorous than those global warming scientists who got trapped in the rapidly freezing ice in Antarctica. Their spokesman said they were "trapped in our own experiment" while refusing to admit that global warming wasn't a problem.

 

[Nietzsche]

And people say the earth was not Flooded in Noah's day. The water is still all here. It's just the weight of the water pushed the mountains higher and the seas deeper.

That isn't how that works. The fact there are portions of the planet where there hasn't been rain in millions of years, casts serious doubt over a "global flood".

 

[Kolibri]

That isn't how that works. The fact there are portions of the planet where there hasn't been rain in millions of years, casts serious doubt over a "global flood".

Not doubting that there may be references to this idea, but I would like to see them. Are they something easy to find?

 

[Nietzsche]

Not doubting that there may be references to this idea, but I would like to see them. Are they something easy to find?

Here's an easy one.