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> “At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,”
by hirundo 11y ago
> “At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said.
So there's a feedback mechanism that, as air temperatures rise, sequesters more liquid water that would otherwise raise sea levels. How will that be interpreted by the climate change alarmist camp as a portent of disaster?
- Daishiman 11y agoWell, since air temperatures are still rising, basically you're increasing, dramatically, the wet-bulb temperature of the atmosphere. You can survive 100-degree dry-bulb temperatures without problem, which is the reason why so many places of the world have a temperature above human core body temperature yet are still quite survivable. Now with wet bulb? Literally all these places can become literally unlivable for humans.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThis study shows that the aggregate causes of sea level rise may be different from what we had guessed. However, it remains an amply demonstrated fact that global temperatures and sea levels are rising, even as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to grow. Why do you think that the former is a good reason to ignore the latter?