On Jul 27, 5:55 pm, Zeke Hausfather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No one > would claim that there is any reasonable probability of a complete > loss of the Greenland (or West Antarctic) ice sheets in the timeframe > of a century.
Greenland, perhaps not. But West Antarctica? Plenty of people worried about that: http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/walse/statement.html But as you imply, "complete" is something of a straw man in this context. Whatever the underlying reality of the behaviour of our big ice sheets in these literally unprecedented circumstances, Hansen is acting sensibly, as I've blogged elsewhere: http://hot-topic.co.nz/2007/07/27/knee-deep-and-still-digging/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
