New Research on Antarctic Ice melting faster than expected

General Discussion
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I really like my desktop comp though. I often keep mine for 10 years or more, even with them being refurbed.

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Bob, yes relatively new area of interest but quite a few connections have already been made.

Did Ancient Climate Change Affect Human Evolution?

D-briefBy Bill Andrews October 11, 2018

discovermagazine _ com/environment/did-ancient-climate-change-affect-human-evolution

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248415001827


2010 - Understanding Climate’s Influence on Human Evolution.

Spend a little time judiciously surfing google, you will receive.

Here’s an interesting twist:

Climate change could affect human evolution. Here's how. Global warming will likely alter the internal workings of our bodies — and cause a noticeable shift in our appearance.

nbcnews _ com/mach/science/climate-change-could-affect-human-evolution-here-s-how-ncna907276


Although the changes to Earth are happening much faster than human evolution can keep up with. But other than that interesting article.

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I remember grand debates about the changes to expect within our cryosphere during our life-time back in the '70s, '80s (oh yeah, and '90, '00s, '10s also.) if we did nothing - I get no satisfaction watching it go down easily a fast and frightening as those who thought about it feared.

“too little, too late?” Hmm, likely.

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I saw another expo on climate change last week or two ago. I think it was a Nova programs on the poles. What I got out of it is that we have been living in the end of an ice age and that, while ice ages have been common, they are not the norm. I think they were saying that the recent global warming is going to get us back to a normal where there is no ice, or very little, at the poles. They showed CO2 levels have been much higher for very long periods in the past. I don’t think it was their intention to downplay the problem, but to show that it is probably going to happen and even if we attack it we will at best only slow it a bit.

Bottom line: I think it would be better to plan how we will live with it than to try to stop a natural process. We need to get the best return on our efforts. It would be more than just unfortunate if we were to disrupt the lives of everyone on Earth for generations and wind up making no significant difference.

I think it worthwhile to understand how humans came to have a map of Antarctica without ice cover.

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@Bob what is happening with Climate Change isn’t all nature. Much of it has been caused by humans and the industries we’ve created. We really need to got wind, solar, and water power to cut CO2 emission and in order to live with what is natural. What is happening isn’t natural.

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It would be more than just unfortunate if we were to disrupt the lives of everyone on Earth for generations and wind up making no significant difference.
Bob, it's obvious you have never seriously learned about the topic or natural history. All you have is bullshit talking points. You can spout them but I'll never see you come up with any actual serious information that we could investigate and learn from.
I think it worthwhile to understand how humans came to have a map of Antarctica without ice cover.
Well considering that there is no such map, and had you spent anytime investigating the sources of tabloid headlines you'd understand the claim is a fantasy build on imagination and a bit of fabrication to convince the gullible.

Next your going to tell me Chinese explored America long before Columbus was born?

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“On longer time scales, sediment cores show that the cycles of glacials and interglacials are part of a deepening phase within a prolonged ice age that began with the glaciation of Antarctica approximately 40 million years ago.”

“Further, while 2004 appears warmer than any other time in the long-term average, and hence might be a sign of global warming, it should also be noted that the 2004 measurement is from a single year (actually the fourth highest on record, see Image:Short Instrumental Temperature Record.png for comparison). It is impossible to know whether similarly large short-term temperature fluctuations may have occurred at other times, but are unresolved by the available resolution. The next 150 years will determine whether the long-term average centered on the present appears anomalous with respect to this plot.”