[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
Richard Archer
rha at juggernaut.com.au
Mon Feb 5 15:37:44 AEDT 2007
At 2:50 PM +1100 5/2/07, Stewart Fist wrote:
> And remember that the loss of floating ice makes no difference to sea
>levels
That's also in dispute:
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050801_floatingice.html
And also consider that the rise in ocean temperature
which triggered the melting reduces the density of the
sea water resulting in a further rise.
And, if the floating ice was helping to retard the flow
of a glacier, there's also the danger of the glacier
accelerating.
There are positive feedback loops everywhere in this
scenario and I suspect many of them remain unnoticed.
...R.
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