08-22-2019, 05:45 AM
Is it hot enough for ya?
It's been the warmest summer on record in most places around the world including the Big Island. Glaciers are melting, elsewhere, but all that water will eventually make it's way into the Pacific Ocean, and Puna has a good amount of land along the coast. New estimates put sea level rise at 25 feet over the next 100-200 years, so most of us will only notice smaller initial increases. But we will be hotter, the oceans warmer, and summer hurricanes will form more frequently. Do we continue turning up the air conditioning like half the politicians in America, call it a day, and buy a boat?
"There is enough ice in Greenland to raise the sea levels by 7.5 meters, that's about 25 feet, an enormous volume of ice, and that would be devastating to coastlines all around the planet," said Josh Willis, a NASA oceanographer, to CNN. "We should be retreating already from the coastline if we are looking at many meters [lost] in the next century or two."
"It's very rare anywhere on the planet to see 700 meters of no temperature variation, normally we find colder waters in the upper hundred meters or so, but right in front of the glacier it's warm all the way up," said Ian Fenty, a climate scientist at NASA, to CNN. "These warm waters now are able to be in direct contact with the ice over its entire face, supercharging the melting."
https://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-melti...belltitem1
It's been the warmest summer on record in most places around the world including the Big Island. Glaciers are melting, elsewhere, but all that water will eventually make it's way into the Pacific Ocean, and Puna has a good amount of land along the coast. New estimates put sea level rise at 25 feet over the next 100-200 years, so most of us will only notice smaller initial increases. But we will be hotter, the oceans warmer, and summer hurricanes will form more frequently. Do we continue turning up the air conditioning like half the politicians in America, call it a day, and buy a boat?
"There is enough ice in Greenland to raise the sea levels by 7.5 meters, that's about 25 feet, an enormous volume of ice, and that would be devastating to coastlines all around the planet," said Josh Willis, a NASA oceanographer, to CNN. "We should be retreating already from the coastline if we are looking at many meters [lost] in the next century or two."
"It's very rare anywhere on the planet to see 700 meters of no temperature variation, normally we find colder waters in the upper hundred meters or so, but right in front of the glacier it's warm all the way up," said Ian Fenty, a climate scientist at NASA, to CNN. "These warm waters now are able to be in direct contact with the ice over its entire face, supercharging the melting."
https://www.ecowatch.com/greenland-melti...belltitem1
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