[An4ximandros]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/climate-change-antarctica-glaciers-melting-global-warming-nasa

"Something Something Ron Paul Meme Image"

[Kopachris]

Well, ****.

[General Battuta]

Stop the alarmism, Jor-El. Krypton is fine. The real problem is jobs

[X3N0-Life-Form]

That's what Zod said.

[Rodo]

Everything is a problem as of this late. Humanity is doomed, the cause: Selfies.

[Nuke]

il worry when i cant go downtown without getting my feet wet.

[Dragon]

A century should be enough to put up the flood guards/raise the existing ones. A 5m-high ocean-proof wall along the coastal residential areas might not be cheap, but should certainly be doable.

[Nuke]

il just move to higher ground, after looting the lowlands of course.

[MP-Ryan]

I'll enjoy my new ocean-front property, but something tells me Vancouver won't

[Bobboau]

so we have 100 years to put domes over everything

[StarSlayer]

A century should be enough to put up the flood guards/raise the existing ones. A 5m-high ocean-proof wall along the coastal residential areas might not be cheap, but should certainly be doable.

Funny how most of the folks who have contributed the least to this problem are going to get boned the hardest with no recourse while the folks who have contributed the most can just throw money at the problem and retreat behind walls

[Nuke]

I'll enjoy my new ocean-front property, but something tells me Vancouver won't

i already live 3 (small) blocks from the water.

[Grizzly]

A century should be enough to put up the flood guards/raise the existing ones. A 5m-high ocean-proof wall along the coastal residential areas might not be cheap, but should certainly be doable.

More jobs for everyone!

[Klaustrophobia]

they forgot to add "terrorists" to the URL list of buzzwords.

[Luis Dias]

They also forgot to share with us the knowledge that these models predict the "total loss" of this basin within some tens of thousands of years, raising the level of the water some centimeters per century...
http://judithcurry.com/2014/05/18/sea-level-rise-tipping-points/


But why should facts stop us from doing all the usual panic? It's such fun and we also get our 2 minutes of rage against those evil people who use fossil fu... oh ****.

[Wobble73]

"I been to the year three thousand,
nothing has changed but we live underwater...."

Who'd have thought a McBusted song would be so prophetic?

[The E]

They also forgot to share with us the knowledge that these models predict the "total loss" of this basin within some tens of thousands of years, raising the level of the water some centimeters per century...
http://judithcurry.com/2014/05/18/sea-level-rise-tipping-points/

Science reporting is ****, news at 11.

[Luis Dias]

Yes, but that is how public discussion is done nowadays. Scientific reports that are complex, have insightful but subtle reasonings, lots of caveats and nuance, are shared with the public with titles such as "Holy ****, Antartica is breaking apart and we can't stop it anymore", then we have all the Bill Mahers of this world discussing this "Why don't we do smth about this for chrissakes, the world is crumbling apart in front of our very own eyes", while the Limbaughs will just "meh stupid scientists and librals there's ZERO in this", and then they wonder why the US is so "polarized" in their viewpoints. Everyone is in their own ideological bubble and make no efforts whatsoever to peek outside of it. The fault isn't with the people, this is systematic, for instance if the news organizations don't abide to reckless reportings like these they will be ignored against the most reckless ones.

[Kolgena]

I'll enjoy my new ocean-front property, but something tells me Vancouver won't

Vancouver's mostly fine. Richmond's ****ed.

I wonder who owns Antarctica, and who gets to move there once it melts.

[Dragon]

International treaties govern it's status, it's pretty much universally agreed to leave Antarctica alone, except for scientists. That could be an interesting experiment, TBH. Life is resilient, if Antarctica melts, a unique ecosystem will certainly form.