Comments on: New Research: Antarctic Glaciers Destabilized https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/ Sat, 23 May 2015 16:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477432 Sat, 23 May 2015 16:57:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477432 Q: Where are “the wisest of the wise” among us?
A: Hiding from the idiots who would kill us of out fear & insecurity.

Q: Will a wise leader please stand up!
A: Someone will grab a mallet and pound him back down!

Q: Have the wisest of the wise taken flight aboard private jets, heading in different directions with plans to ravage the Earth on one fool’s errand after another?
A: No, they’re the ones actually doing something to help. The dumbest of the rich are the ones frustrating their activities with plans to ravage the Earth.

The rich use their power to preserve the status quo. They fear change and fear uncertainty. They love their money more than their souls. Which is why a famous Person in a famous Book said they lose their souls to Perdition.

Sadly, in today’s world, they now have enough power to take us with them.

]]> By: Steven Earl Salmony https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477431 Sat, 23 May 2015 14:27:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477431 We have over 7.2 billion people on the planet today and not one wise leader among us can be found with the foresight and requisite leadership skills to provide anticipatory guidance. Neither a Nero can be located fiddling in a tower nor a Napoleon waiting at Waterloo. We have named our species Homo sapiens sapiens, but where are “the wisest of the wise” among us? Will a wise leader please stand up! The potential leaders I see are running off in mad frenzy pursuing only one thing……money. Can ‘flying for the buck’ be the wisest thing to be doing in our time? Or have the wisest of the wise taken flight aboard private jets, heading in different directions with plans to ravage the Earth on one fool’s errand after another? All leading members of the last generation with the power to change course, to do something that makes a difference with regard to climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and extreme poverty.

]]> By: HSL https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477430 Sat, 23 May 2015 14:25:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477430 Greg, I’m having trouble posting & hope this isn’t a duplicate. I cued this up to Richard Alley’s description of the “woo” effect, the reason why marine-based ice sheets on bed slopes that deepen inland are so dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4oMsfa_30Q#t=37m15s

]]> By: HSL https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477429 Sat, 23 May 2015 14:21:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477429 Thanks for posting this Greg, but with all due respect, the NASA vid you posted isn’t the best. It’s missing the “woo” effect (per Richard Alley) that demonstrates why marine based ice sheets on bed slopes that deepen inland are so dangerous. This is from a lecture he did at Stanford in 2012, The whole thing is interesting, but I cued it up to the “woo” effect.. Maybe you would like to post it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4oMsfa_30Q#t=37m15s

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477428 Fri, 22 May 2015 17:37:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477428 No, they’ll pick up on the conspiracy evident by Greg’s misspellings. It obviously indicates a state of cognitive dissonance due to lying about AGW. Nervous fingers hit the wrong keys… (You heard it here first!)

]]> By: Magma https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477427 Fri, 22 May 2015 16:12:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477427 So now the ‘skeptics’ are reduced to quibbling about headlines.

Next will be your alarmist punctuation and grammar.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477426 Fri, 22 May 2015 13:59:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477426 Just came across this headline:

“Syria crisis: ‘Children died’ in US air strike”

All of the children have died! OMG!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477425 Fri, 22 May 2015 13:56:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477425 They are glaciers. They are in the Antarctic. They are destabilized.

“Americans Killed In Iraq Bomb Attack” … all of the Americans?

“Deer Killed By Semi On Route 9” all of the deer?

This is not a thing.

]]> By: Everett F Sargent https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/21/new-research-antarctic-glaciers-destabilized/#comment-477424 Fri, 22 May 2015 08:17:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21174#comment-477424 Greg,

This specific paper is with regards to the “Southern Antarctic Peninsula” you do understand that that PART of Antarctica is NOT the entire continent of Antarctica?

Anyone, including myself reading your title:

“New Research: Antarctic Glaciers Destabilized”

might, just might, think that ALL of Antarctica’s glaciers (meaning the entire ice sheet (WAIS/EAIS)) have become destabilized.

Just, you know, sayin’

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