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David A's avatar

"80 times larger than the present-day melt rate"

for 1,750 years.

It was warmer then now in the last 10 k years when SL was 6' higher then it currently is, and this immenint disaster did not happen then.

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David Paterson's avatar

My rule of thumb is : If it’s in the Guardian, it’s.... ....

If it were to happen, the earth would have stopped spinning. I think adaptation to cold weather would be the least of our problems.in fact we wouldn’t be here to have any problems.

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David Walker's avatar

I rather think that such an event would entail cancelling convection, thermohaline circulation and the Coriolis effect.

But there again, I'm not a "Climate Scientist", merely a retired engineer, so what would I know!

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