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Flip
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PostPosted: 21:05 - 22 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Me too.
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PostPosted: 09:26 - 23 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
You'd only get an ASBO for keeping it in the garden.
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Robby
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 23 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
And it'd melt in the garden, your grass would be all soggy for ages.

Anyway. Ice will melt, very, very slowly. By the time its an issue I'll be dead. If it bothers my kids, they can move somewhere up a hill.

Am I going to have 50% less fun to make 5% less emissions?

No.
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 23 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Whosthedaddy wrote:
Its probably due to man that the speed of them melting is fatser then maybe predicted.


Possible rather than probable really. CO2 is a pathetically weak "global warming" gas, and man made emissions only account for about 3% of total CO2 emissions.

Whosthedaddy wrote:
On Brainiac once, John Tickle said 'what would happen to the water level if all the boats and ships were removed from the sea?'


Virtually none at all. They are displacing their own weight on water, but compared to the surface area of the seas there is very little covered with boats.

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PostPosted: 01:29 - 27 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh, do we have to have our pieces of ice shaped like a pyramid?

Or can we request it personally, maybe shaved or grated into thousands of little sno-cones with that nice syrup that turns the ice blue and tastes of snozzberries.

And I'd quite like some of it in cocktails, with little umbrellas and stuff. If thats okay.

I thought the land floated on the top of the sea, anyway. So even if the water level rises, surely the land just floats up out of the water. Bounces a little maybe, and blows water out of its nostrils ... hmmmmmmm, hang on ... that's not right.

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PostPosted: 16:25 - 27 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
don't they also reckon that most of east coast england will disappear into the ocean aswell as large sections of the UK becomming submerged if the polar ice caps melted?

will have to look into it, but if it does happen like that, london might go the way of atlantis....
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PostPosted: 17:37 - 27 Feb 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Most of Holland is already below sea level and they've dealt with it ok. Wink
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lol those guys probably haven't noticed that yet, legal cannabis and all... Laughing
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JeffT
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PostPosted: 15:00 - 10 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kickstart wrote:
Hi

Question is, is global temperature really increasing over the long term? Sure a couple of hundred years ago there was a cold spell when the river Thames froze over. Just as several hundred years before that the world was warmer. Go back to Roman times and the south of England was warm enough to grow grapes for wine.

All the best

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I have only just spotted this thread but by coincidence my girlfriend is currently writing her dissertation on climate change dating back to the Roman withdrawal. I will get her to have a look at the thread later on.
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PostPosted: 16:16 - 11 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
what if we just got the population of the earth to just eat the ice, sure you'd be pissing for a week, but you can just flush it awa...............ah i see due to a very long cycle, it would end up back in the sea anyway Sad

bugger Wink
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WishayKillie
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PostPosted: 10:32 - 13 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jman wrote:
don't they also reckon that most of east coast england will disappear into the ocean aswell as large sections of the UK becomming submerged if the polar ice caps melted?

will have to look into it, but if it does happen like that, london might go the way of atlantis....


Southern Engurlund is sinking anyway is it not? While Scotland is rising up, it's a kinda see-saw effect only Engurlund aint coming back up.
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PostPosted: 16:10 - 13 Mar 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
innominate wrote:
I think the largest bit, on the East is about 2800m above sea level, with ice piled on top of that. So the vast majority of ice on there is not touching the sea at all, just the flat bits on the west are already in teh sea.

MOre pretty pictures Very Happy

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/ICESat_AntElevation.jpg


Considering that land is positioned above one of the poles, and the pole is reasonably central in the land mass, which part of it would you describe as being "more easterly" than the rest? Laughing
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