[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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