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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
Except when we melt enough of the polar ice and the fresh water disrupts the North Atlantic Conveyor, the corresponding changes to the Gulf Stream could well result in our climate becoming colder which would pretty much screw up your plans!
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No need to be too concerned about the warming, then! We'll have to start burning more fossil fuels to warm the planet up again...
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Originally Posted by nomadking
The Devon Island thing was in a TV documentary episode of "Arctic Secrets".
How have past predictions of sea level changes gone? Any of them remotely correct?
"Thermal expansion" is where sea levels rise because of warming of the seas cause the water to expand. If the seas cool down, that thermal expansion will obviously reverse.
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The Maldives were meant to be under water by now, weren't they?