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Cincydawg

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9954 on: Today at 08:00:14 AM »
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise | CNN

A semi-"Doomsday" possibility.  There is some possibility a lot of "bad things" could coincide and cause horrific things, I don't know when, but sooner than 2050.  If this is some kind of war, we're losing.
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9955 on: Today at 08:03:58 AM »
Is not there also a possibility that that water "rushing" under the glacier gets frozen by the glacier?
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9956 on: Today at 08:50:02 AM »
If the incoming water is frozen by the glacier, it has to be heating up the glacier, so that wouldn't be good (unless the heat is dissipated by some outside mechanism).

Water's heat of fusion is unusually high.

This is just one possibility of a rather sudden dramatic shift in our reality, I don't think anyone can say it's likely in a decade, or unlikely, or anything. 
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« Reply #9957 on: Today at 10:26:43 AM »


The Brazos river, which runs through my town near the coast, is in moderate flood stage.  It's not out of it's banks yet, and it does this kind of flooding regularly.  But it wouldn't take much rain at points North to send it into a major flood, which is what happened in 2016 (the year before Harvey).  That year the river flooded in many areas, backing muddy water into neighborhoods and subdivisions with the sun shining and only a few inches of rain in most places.  All the water came from up-country flooding.  
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« Reply #9958 on: Today at 11:07:50 AM »
Meanwhile I'm still praying for rain.  I live in the light brown, the red is one county over and represents the majority of the Lake Travis recharge basin.

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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9959 on: Today at 11:15:03 AM »
bunch of rain in Nebraska and Iowa in the past 24 hours, more on the way

it's welcome

the hail at 3am wasn't welcome - work car sitting outside the Holiday Inn
luckily not large enuff to bother the car
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« Reply #9960 on: Today at 11:34:24 AM »
It was 69° Sunday with Northern breeze,yesterday 90° and muggy - today more of the same
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Re: Weather, Climate, Environment, and Energy
« Reply #9961 on: Today at 12:07:14 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on Today at 08:00:14 AM
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise | CNN

A semi-"Doomsday" possibility.  There is some possibility a lot of "bad things" could coincide and cause horrific things, I don't know when, but sooner than 2050.  If this is some kind of war, we're losing.
This was one of the plot points in that "Ministry For The Future" book. The water below supposedly could effectively "lubricate" the contact between the bottom of the glacier and Rick leading to increased rate of glacial movement into the ocean. Which would be bad. 
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« Reply #9962 on: Today at 12:15:28 PM »
I'm 1000' above sea level
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