We'd lose a lot of good people but cost benefit analysis is looking positive for the future of human kind. Im not cheering for it but Im just saying that if it happens that it may actually be a long term positive.... Glass half full kinda guy!
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The one thing that pissed me off in this thread was people weren't understanding isostatic rebound or inflation. The miles of ice on the northern hemisphere was pushing down on the land with enough force to cause other areas to bulge up. It's like 3YLM laying on his waterbed. The area he lays on depresses and the other areas rise up. This is a scientific known and not a crackpot theory. I feel like people were thinking I was talking about sea rise and fall but wasn't.
Post-glacial rebound (also called
isostatic rebound or
crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of
ice sheets during the
last glacial period, which had caused
isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound and isostatic depression are phases of
glacial isostasy (
glacial isostatic adjustment,
glacioisostasy), the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to changes in ice mass distribution.
[1] The direct raising effects of post-glacial rebound are readily apparent in parts of Northern
Eurasia,
Northern America,
Patagonia, and
Antarctica. However, through the processes of
ocean siphoning and
continental levering, the effects of post-glacial rebound on
sea level are felt globally far from the locations of current and former ice sheets.
[2]