But he and a host of
other ice experts, in e-mail exchanges and calls over the past week examining Mr. Will's assertions, noted the irrelevance of this parsing.
Not exact matches
With improved technologies and a reduction in sea
ice around Antarctica, Hemmings, Ainley and many
other experts believe its fisheries will be further threatened without policy changes.
«The primary uncertainty in sea level rise is what are the
ice sheets going to do over the coming century,» said Mathieu Morlighem, an
expert in
ice sheet modeling at the University of California, Irvine, who led the paper along with dozens of
other contributors from institutions around the world.
Other experts, though, say thinning
ice sheets on land and calving
ice shelves on the sea are reasons for alarm.
With the rising levels of BPA and
other plastic chemicals found in our groundwater, ocean water, and even buried under 30 feet of
ice at the south pole,
experts warn that these chemicals may be contributing to the rising health problems we are seeing worldwide.
I like the fact that the authors and
other experts cautioned us to not conclude «more widespread surface melting could not eventually destabilize vast areas of the world's second - largest
ice storehouse».
Experts believe that the North Pole will be completely
ice - free in the summer months by as early as 2030, while
others say that this won't happen until 2050 or 2080.
On the
other hand, it is clear that Joughin et al. did not simulate the worst case, so care is required in more than one direction,» Richard Alley, one of the foremost
experts on the fate of the world's
ice sheets, said in an email conversation.
Retreat at Thwaites Glacier, on the
other hand — another of West Antarctica's monster glaciers, and currently the subject of greatest concern among Antarctic
ice experts — has slightly increased in the last few years, from about 1,100 feet to nearly 1,400 feet per year.
What's more, while the
ice - shelves of Earth's
other major water - lock, Antarctica, continue to melt faster than ever before, they are still melting slower than many
experts previously warned.
As the video warns,
experts with NASA and various
other professional institutions have already determined that the water trapped as Greenland's
ice could effectively raise the height of the world's seas by a whopping 23 feet (7m)- that is, if it ALL melted into the ocean.
We asked members of our Board of Advisors and
other experts: Could proposed solar climate engineering technologies prevent or slow Arctic and Antarctic
ice melt?
In all my hubs on global warming, I have addressed the issues of the data, the
ice loss, the consensus claim, and the numerous
OTHER experts who most assuredly do NOT form the «consensus» that popular belief insists on.