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Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?
| October 11th, 2015 at 2:42:18 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
Pretty sure even though tornado warnings aren't perfect, even a couple extra minutes makes a difference going into a shelter, or even just your bathtub. Hurricane warnings have probably made a even bigger difference. I remember plenty of nice sunny days prior to knowing a storm is going to hit a coastline. I would have never left an area based on the prior day. (25 years living in Florida total now) You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| October 11th, 2015 at 2:46:52 PM permalink | |
| AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
This is very true, but at the same time the population has gone way up, and this includes tornado areas. I am always wondering why tornadoes rarely hit city-centers. Did they build the cities where they were because of fewer storms or have we just been more lucky? Shouldn't a tornado touch down in downtown Dallas sooner or later? The President is a fink. |
| October 11th, 2015 at 2:50:26 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | edited If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 11th, 2015 at 3:48:21 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
Although some people rebuild in the same area, it does make sense to me that people would end up in areas less prone to natural disasters just through a general reckoning. If your home is getting mowed down every decade on average, you'd have to think that would influence people. (well some people) People still want nice looking areas even if there are built-in risks. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| October 11th, 2015 at 5:59:06 PM permalink | |
| reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
You're confusing Antarctica's land ice ("ice sheet") with Antartica's sea ice. Sea ice is increasing, land ice is decreasing. But overall, the continent of Antarctica has been losing about 134 billion metric tons of ice per year since 2002. (source: NASA) Here's a Wall Street Journal article from March 2015:
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| October 11th, 2015 at 6:52:46 PM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Q: When is evidence not evidence? A: When it is contrary to your personal beliefs. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
| October 11th, 2015 at 7:19:39 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4521 |
The data doesn't fit their model so they have to find wiggle room and talk about small areas in the North of Antarctica and other ways of discounting this. "Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean." NASA So if the sea ice isn't important in the south why is it in the north? "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| October 12th, 2015 at 10:22:30 AM permalink | |
| reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
There is no land underneath the North Pole. It's floating ice. |
| October 12th, 2015 at 10:37:48 AM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4521 |
Yes that is why Arctic melting doesn't raise the level of the worlds oceans. But that does not take away the fact that total area of ice in the Antarctic is growing not shrinking. The Arctic ice cap is also growing but is not back to the highest levels that were recorded by satellite but of course we really don't what level should be 'normal'. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
| October 12th, 2015 at 10:54:31 AM permalink | |
| Dalex64 Member since: Mar 8, 2014 Threads: 3 Posts: 3687 | Aren't they saying that, while the area that the ice is covering is larger, the volume of the ice that is covering that area is smaller, and all of that volume of ice that is no longer part of the area in in liquid form in the oceans? "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan |