Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – new research

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[–]P-38lightning 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Wait, there's still ice to melt? Al Gore said the ice would be all gone 10 years ago.

These gloom and doom predictions are old and tired.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Wait, there's still ice to melt?

Enough to raise sea levels about 80 metres, of you get it all

Al Gore said the ice would be all gone 10 years ago.

He quoted a paper looking at the collapse of the northern summer sea ice.

The West Antarctic ice shelves aren't northern, they're southern.

These gloom and doom predictions are old and tired.

You need to look at all the predictions to understand the consensus of the science. Picking one extreme one, and finding that it is extreme doesn't overthrow the consensus regarding the other side of there planet.

Or even the same side.

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    [–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I need to look at all the predictions

    No you need to not misrepresent the science. There are things that are known, and there are things that are still being investigated.

    I have been. For the last 40 fucking years. Not one, not a single one has ever come true.

    Global mean surface temperature predictions have been very good over that time.