William M Connolley wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Do you know what the basis for that is? Is there some fundamental
>> reason why Greenland's ice sheets couldn't slide into the see in
>> months/weeks/hours?
>
> Doing it in 50y would be very fast. OTOH since that would have to involve
> essentially unknown mechanisms, why not invoke other unknowns to make it
> faster?
>
Perhaps one could say:
"The possibility of little green men burrowing underneath, lifting it up
and chucking it all into the sea in the next 3 months cannot be
excluded, but agreement with observations is worse."
:-)
James
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