Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/29/2009 11:27:47 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Two metre sea level rise unstoppable-experts 29 Sep 2009 17:39:53 GMT Source: Reuters * Several metres sea level rise almost unstoppable
* Coast protection would save much land, homes, assets
* Cost up to $215 billion a year by 2100
By Gerard Wynn
OXFORD, England, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A rise of at least two metres in the world's sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday.
"The crux of the sea level issue is that it starts very slowly but once it gets going it is practically unstoppable," said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at Germany's Potsdam Institute and a widely recognised sea level expert.
"There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions."
Rahmstorf said the best outcome was that after temperatures stabilised, sea levels would only rise at a steady rate "for centuries to come", and not accelerate.
Most scientists expect at least 2 degrees Celsius warming as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, and probably more. The world warmed 0.7-0.8 degrees last century.
Rahmstorf estimated that if the world limited warming to 1.5 degrees then it would still see two metres sea level rise over centuries, which would see some island nations disappear.
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====What would we do without these so called experts..... ====
Have more money...
New York’s been under 100 feet of water for 29 years and nobody seems to notice.
How’s that slow sea level rise (and land sinking along some coasts) been such a problem over the last 100yr? Just move away from the coast and evacuate the Chocolate City (no, not Hersey).
In a better world these imbeciles would be tarred, feathered and forced to watch and listen to Algore blatherings for days.
I have a map that is 200 years old. It gives the level of one of the Great Lakes near me. Guess what...It’s the same today!!
Phase 1: Buy coastal land exactly 78.74" above the current flood level.
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: PROFIT!!!!
If it’s unstoppable, I won’t worry about it any more....
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Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Let’s set up a wet weather gear concession at each hotel, similar to in Venice. We’ll make a fortune.
Yay! Looks like I’m going to have some land on the waterfront!!
My house is about 12’ above sea level, so I may have ocean front property soon, cool!
Want to lower sea levels? ... I will do it for $10 Billion dollars.
Of course, I will need permission to dig in western Egypt between the Qattara depression and the Mediterranean. I would also need to have immunity from all lawsuits related to the digging, resulting impact to the earth’s oceans and any environmental impacts.
So ... by this day in 2010 the sea level will have risen by 2 cm worldwide.
At last a prediction from the AGW nutters that we can test. All the barnacle lines the world over will shift by 2 cm. The upper markers for Spring tides, and so on, all up 2cm.
Good News: I still have a 7493’ safety margin.
Bad News: All my relatives live at sea level.
Apparently, so is the BS level.
Okay, so where will all this extra water come from? Icecaps? They already DISPLACE water so if they melt it will all equal out. You’d have to have Great Flood like rains to have all that flooding but since these scientists are usually atheists that can’t happen.
Er, where are all the hurricanes that were predicted for 2009?
King Canute discovered that a thousand years ago, but it'll go back down again in a few hours.
Ah, so now I know what Underwear Gnomes do during Global Warming Cycle ...
You're not fooling me, Slim.
Even though we all know you like to slum it down at Molly's, everyone knows there is plenty of room for all your relatives at Stately Slim Manor.
LOL! Exactly, Lancer!
Walter Cronkite said the same thing in the late 70's - still ZIP, nothing - no islands have gone under. No cities are swamped...
It's starting to look like a Bernie Madoff scam - lots of UN and "research" money out there... and the scammers use fear to get it.
This explains why real estate prices along our coastlines have plummeted.
Good. Now maybe they can shut up since there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Expert: swede shoe used car salesman 50 or more miles from home!
BS
Out in the field, yes.
Might as well party.
Oh and since my home is near the beach this announcment hurts its value. Think I’m gonna sue him
Why don´t they siphon off some of the sea level into the Dead Sea, and use the power of water going downhill to produce electricity for Jordan-Israel.
I think I saw this episode of Gilligan’s Island...
Gilligan was using the Professor’s depth gauge stick as an anchor for a crab pot, and kept moving it to deeper water to catch bigger crabs...
“There is no way I can see to stop this rise, even if we have gone to zero emissions.”
Well, if there is nothing we can do about it, lets stop talking about it and just get on with our lives.
Yep - the sea keep on rising, then falling, then rising, then ...
You, sir, are ruthless. Just ruthless!
Keep up the good work.
But, if you act NOW and give us more POWER and MONEY, we'll see what we can do.
Don't wait! Offer ends soon!
I’ll put them to work chopping tumbleweeds.
Really? Would that hold enough water to make a measureable dent in water level?
But are they relatives you like?
In reasonable doses... ;)
And scuba classes to see the old city under water.
You know how when people go to the Grand Canyon, everybody takes a rock for a souvenir? At Everest, everybody BROUGHT one.
It’s all of the granola bar wrappers, dirty diapers, and cigarette butts the climbers left behind.
Hundreds of years and an increase of 2 meters the experts proclaim. Or was it ‘expert’ proclaims? Anyway it’s a mute point ‘cos we got bigger fish to fry! In around 4 and a half billion years the planet and indeed the solar system will die as the sun cools, expands and collapses into a black hole - that doesn’t give us much time, shouldn’t we be building space ships? I mean time is of the essence here! And what about the POLO BAHS?
Don’t build your cities on the coast during an Ice Age we are still in....
Lesson Learned...
Think of all of the new jobs you can create by moving cities and building dykes!!!!
Economy solved!!!
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand [for] the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Jeremiah 5:22
Bible or “Experts”?
A bigger problem will be what to do when the glaciers start rolling towards the equator in the next 1000-2000 years.
We won’t be able to stop them and the equatorial regions of the earth probably won’t support all 10-20 billion of us.
Also there are no records from human civilizations when this happened last time 60,000 years ago. In fact, all recorded human history dates from after the end of the last glaciation about 10,000 years ago, even though we’ve been around for a couple hundred thousand years.
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