Antarctica 2.0 - 10

Fig. 1When Even A Disaster Is A Cover-up

In the previous post of this series I indicated that "In the next post of this series I will show graphs of the sections of Antarctica in terms of how much grounding line (where tidewater glaciers leave the land and begin to float) each one has" (Antarctica 2.0 - 9).

Today's graphs are the fulfillment of that promise, which is important, but more than that they are provided because Antarctica is so important to consider (sea level rise impact on the coasts of all nations, not just the United States, Fig. 1).

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Additionally, I want to explain why I labeled the graphic "When Even A Disaster Is A Cover-up" even though the story it links to is "These Are The Cities Most People Will Move To From Sea-Level Rise" (Fig. 1).

The reason is threefold: 1) it is nationalistic in the sense that it leaves out the rest of the world, 2) it is incompetent in the sense that it leaves out the fact that U.S. Seaports will be destroyed, and 3) it does not consider that the disaster is incremental and won't all happen at the end of the time span they consider because it is already happening, and not limited to ~80 years from now (2100).

The U.S. seaports in the coastal areas portrayed by Forbes include:

Los Angeles, San Diego, Richmond (CA), Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Anacortes, Port Everglades, Tampa, Miami, Manatee, Port Arthur, Freeport, Houston, Texas City, Corpus Christi, New Orleans, Savannah, Pascagoula, Jacksonville, Mobile,South Louisiana US LUA, Huntington - Tri-State (WV), Beaumont, Baton Rouge, Plaquemines (Louisiana), Lake Charles, Memphis, Richmond, Wilmington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Hampton Roads, Charleston, Wilmington, Portland (Maine), Pittsburgh, New York/New Jersey, Boston, etc.

(Appendix U-Z ... an appendix to Seaports With Sea Level Change - 2).

This is why seaports are so important:

"By volume, more than 95 percent of U.S. international trade moves through the nation's ports and harbors, with about 50 percent of these goods being hazardous materials."

(NOAA PORTS, emphasis added). The Forbes idea that it only involves moving to another city is ludicrous (Why Sea Level Rise May Be The Greatest Threat To Civilization).


The graphs (Fig. 2 - Fig. 7) focus on areas around Antarctica, the source for most of the sea level change in the United States shown by the Forbes graphic (Fig. 1).

Fig. 8 Antarctica Areas

Each graph has a list of WOD zone numbers so you can locate them exactly on the WOD Map as well as on Fig. 8.

Additionally, there is a list of grounding line lengths for each zone, with a total for that area of Antarctica at the bottom of the list.

The Conservative Temperature lines above the Ice-melt Temperature lines at the bottom of the graph area indicate Pelagic depths with the same color scheme as the previous post's graphs at Fig. 7 in that post.

The bottom line is that these graphs show clearly that the seawater around Antarctica is above the temperature required to melt tidewater glaciers all around the continent's grounding lines (thousands of kilometers - add it up).


The deniers in the despotic minority of the voting public can vote into office all the global warming induced climate change deniers that they want to, but they cannot keep burning fossil fuels and avoid the suicide of civilization (How To Identify The Despotic Minority - 14).

The previous post in this series is here.