Hello my name is Cat and I am a marine scientist
I am perfectly aware of this fact, the ting is, temperatures will have to rise quite substantially (something in the order of 15 degrees i believe) before you melt the antarctic land ice...
Incorrect
I think if you read my post I said that the sea ice would melt first....
But it won't melt first. It may melt faster, but the Greenland ice will melt at much the same rate as the sea ice that surrounds it. The fact is that there's a fucktonne more land ice than sea ice, and therefore will take a lot longer to melt (convection of heat as well rah rah).
I'm having a go at those south pacific nations that claim they are visibly sinking and quite clearly aren't.
Tell that to Tuvalu
In fact, the small portion of the northern hemisphere that is land ice will probably melt before the southern hemisphere.
Correct. In land area, sea ice > land ice in the northern hemisphere. But there's proportionally more land ice because there's ice sheets and they're rather thick. So.. yeah.
and to quote the the rational wiki link "a consensus itself proves nothing"
the acidification of the oceans is a load of junk, the limestone will just desolve thereby neutralizing the incoming acidity, as already mentioned in this thread....the bit about Greenland is true but exceedingly unlikely.
Wahey incorrect. At, ah, "equilibrium" CaCO3 (NOT "limestone" - think more coral skeletons, etc, which become limestone) also dissolves as a function of pressure/depth as well as a function of CO2 in water. Extra CO2 upsets this balance, and no, that does not "neutralise the incoming acidity" such that the effect is stabilised or reversed.
Disturbed rainfall patterns, well, the Sahara was an ocean or a rainforest or something like that from memory.
Point?
