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Warpy

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1. I think his group was the one in Greenland

Reply to trumad (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:53 PM

Nov 2012

that documented huge lakes on the surface of the glaciers that disappeared within a matter of hours, sometimes minutes, the second the water found the smallest fissure. The water is now on the bottom of the ice sheet, pressure keeping it liquid in slightly warmer conditions, and lubricating a faster slide into the warming sea.

I think the predictions of a sea rise of just a few inches this century are terribly optimistic. I think it's going to happen much faster.

Humans are going to be organized a lot differently within the next couple of hundred years.

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