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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Curious to see that foot-a-year sea rise hypothesis. How is the news missing the opportunity to run that "sky is falling" headline? Usually news will make stuff up to keep us clicking, but they'd prefer to use something others made up if they can.
I expect that during warming from an ice age, most glaciers would be in retreat. That's what exiting an ice age entails.
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* The Cryosphere folks define the end of an ice age as a specific sea level.
* Whatever the state of ice is at that point is associated with an interglacial.
* When we entered the Holocene, the state of the ice remained essentially static for 10,000-years, until recently. Glaciers were held where they were.
* The oceans hold 90% of tropospheric heat of the past 150-years, in shallow waters.
* The heat is melting ice, has hit amplification feedback loops, and is accelerating non-linearly.
* We keep adding greenhouse gases.
* Earth will continue to warm.
* Both poles are warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
* 100-feet of sea level rise is on the way.