tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post8524403223057115441..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Greenland & Antarctica Invade The United StatesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-85832851606667311982015-06-07T08:36:06.107-05:002015-06-07T08:36:06.107-05:00I should add that compressed ice melts at a lower ...I should add that compressed ice melts at a lower temperature than non-compressed ice (i.e. it melts below 32 deg. F / 0 deg. C) and is most compressed at the base of the glacier where it meets bedrock.<br /><br />Thus, friction and geothermal sources can induce melting, which adds lubricating melt water, which in turn allows acceleration.<br /><br />Even in winter.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629960642482064127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-31614856370193493252015-06-07T08:22:06.680-05:002015-06-07T08:22:06.680-05:00One scientist opines that the NEGIS has basal melt...One scientist opines that the NEGIS has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-sheet_dynamics#Basal_melt" rel="nofollow">basal melt</a> attributable to sub-glacial volcanoes (<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.73.3040&rep=rep1&type=pdf" rel="nofollow">High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland</a>). <br /><br />So, there is summer basal melt induced acceleration caused by surface melt water flowing into crevasses, but there is winter basal melt acceleration too, caused by other dynamics (see e.g. <a href="http://www.the-cryosphere.net/9/1183/2015/tc-9-1183-2015.html" rel="nofollow">Winter speed-up of quiescent surge-type glaciers in Yukon, Canada</a>).Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629960642482064127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-46081675061413337082015-06-02T07:28:14.707-05:002015-06-02T07:28:14.707-05:00"sea level rise""sea level rise"Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-72760971408640520842015-06-01T15:11:09.923-05:002015-06-01T15:11:09.923-05:00War destroys vast swaths of nations.
Cities are r...War destroys vast swaths of nations.<br /><br />Cities are ruined, people must migrate, martial law engulfs government thinking and doing.<br /><br />Hunger, disease, and despair spread.<br /><br />Sea lever rise will do that.<br /><br />The difference between sea level rise and war is that the seal level rise does not have a Marshall Plan, or a notion that "the war is over.".<br /><br />It just keeps on keeping on.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.com