This is amusing because you don’t really get what is happening in this thread. The OP found an instance where sea level is falling due to effects of climate change. Typically the stated effects of climate change are sea level rise. This is perfect for you. You should sticky it, save it as a favorite in your “global warming is dumm” folder. Anytime you see an article about sea level rise, you can then provide that link and say “I thought sea level is falling” and follow it with exclamation points, eye rolls and facepalms and then balm in the self satisfaction of knowing you have defeated the global warming internet libtards once again.
I read it, and fully understood it... It's you that does NOT understand my point. That myth about ice/snow pushing down the ground and seas level falling becasue the ice/snow melted and the land is rising is hilarious and ridiculous all at the same time. The seas levels falling or the land rising is far more likely a result in more water being trapped AS ICE in the Antarctic, as new ice, than the articles clown-y explanation that the land is rising...
It’s the same thing with “The British Isles will actually get colder”. They will when Gulf Stream reroutes as one of the effects. They will love that comeback, Adair defeating the global warming Internet libtards (good phrase)
It’s obvious you still don’t get it.Sea levels have been steadily rising for a long time - additional snow in parts of an Arctica isn’t stopping that. Iceland is an instance where the underlying issue, increased global temperatures, is causing a localized effect that is the exact opposite of what anyone would intuitively expect when adding more water to the oceans. If Greenland and Antarctica behave the same way the effect on sea level will be greater than simply adding to the volume of their lost snow and ice but also the displaced water from their land mass’ buoyancy.
If the earth were a gigantic solid rock, you would probably be right. But it's not. The crust of the earth is only on the order of 25 miles thick, while the radius of the earth is about 4,000 miles. What do you suppose the other 3,975 miles consists of? Where does magma for volcanic eruptions come from? If the material below the crust is a liquid, then it seems possible if not likely that the crust could "float" on it and be deflected by additional weight on it, and therefore "rebound" when that weight is removed. There actually are places where the ground appears to be solid but is actually floating. The southern third or half of Louisiana is floating. When they pump oil out of the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana, the land slowly drops. When they tamed the Mississippi River with levees and channeled the sediment into a specific place in the Gulf, the drop in level was worsened. When they put large concrete buildings in a coastal city like New Orleans, the weight of the buildings accelerated the drop in level. That's why parts of New Orleans are 17' below sea level (and still dropping). Coastal areas of Louisiana are slowly being lost to the Gulf. The article never claimed that the rise in the elevation of Iceland was CAUSING a change in sea level. That would be absurd. Iceland is a tiny country. Iceland is experiencing the effects of these changes that are caused by global warming, not initiating them.
In other news Buddhist monk immolates in self in act of compassion for climate change. Burning yourself alive. We’re doomed if killing yourself is hailed as an act of compassion.
Why is it that the land is rising in Iceland, but the water is rising in Miami, St. Augustine, New York City, Venice (Italy), and hundreds of other coastal cities around the world? Aren't all of them on the same planet? Doesn't water normally go to the lowest level possible? Your "new ice in the Antarctic" theory does not explain that discrepancy.
I’m going to take a wild guess, but I’m going to suggest that earth forces in Iceland act a lot like those on the NZ North Island, the Kamchatka peninsula, and around our beloved Yellowstone. Maybe there’s a common thread between those 4 locations, and a few more lesser examples, and some greater examples deep under the ocean floor.
Adding, plenty of regions are in continual uplift due to glacial melt, including where there have not been glaciers in human memory. It’s happening fast, and the glaciers just receded, if you listen to Dr. Lucy Jones, who loves to remind us that geologic time is not like human time, like when she often describes a massive Southern California earthquake as “imminent”, quite accurately, by the standards of her profession.
Plate tectonics? My knowledge here is limited but I think this may explain some land rising and sinking.
I think that plate movements are generally accompanied by an earthquake. One plate slides under or over another one at a plate boundary, and one of them gets pushed upwards. While Iceland does have volcanoes, it typically only has very small earthquakes. It is on a boundary of the Eurasian plate and the North American plate, but those plates are moving apart, which causes the small earthquakes. If anything, that should cause Iceland to sink, not rise above the ocean. Earthquakes - Katla | Geopark
Global Warming is a fraud designed to rake money in for the criminals. They just make these stories up. Just wait for the Grand Solar Minimum (which we are now in) to really kick in. You'll be praying for global warming.
We aren't in a Solar Minimum. I remember when Fever used to talk about how cold it was going to get in 2018-2020, when we actually were. That didn't happen, amazingly.
