Posted on 03/22/2012 8:47:03 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Scientists looked back in time – in the geologic record – to see the future
Even if humankind manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)–as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommends–future generations will likely have to deal with a completely different world.
One with sea levels 40 to 70 feet higher than at present, according to research results published this week in the journal Geology.
The scientists, led by Kenneth Miller of Rutgers University, reached their conclusion by studying rock and soil cores taken in Virginia, New Zealand and the Eniwetok Atoll in the north Pacific Ocean.
They looked at the late Pliocene epoch, 2.7 million to 3.2 million years ago, the last time the carbon dioxide level in Earth’s atmosphere was at its current level and when atmospheric temperatures were 2 C higher than they are now.
“The difference in water volume released is the equivalent of melting the entire Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets, as well as some of the marine margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet,” said H. Richard Lane, program director in the National Science Foundation‘s Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the work.
“Such a rise of the modern oceans would swamp the world’s coasts and affect as much as 70 percent of the world’s population.”
“You don’t need to sell your beach real estate yet, because melting of these large ice sheets will take centuries to millennia,” Miller said.
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On the other hand sea level could drop or remain much the same or rise a little bit or drop a little bit or even some combination of these. And we have the proof!
Sea levels have been steadily rising for 40,000 years. What a brave prediction! lol
They misplaced the decimal point. It’s 700 feet.
I mean really, didn't Dr. Goebbels teach these guys anything? If you're going to lie, you gotta make it a real big lie, make it 70000 feet...THAT will get people's attention.
This article is kind of a big 'nothing' speculative scare story.
BTW, I personally increased the average level of my 1/2 acre back yard by 2 meters by having backfill hauled in for free from new construction excavations. Imagine if 500 million people did that how much land we could reclaim from rising sea levels:)
I don’t believe redOrbit is a credible “highly viewed” news source, (google.Earth the address)..
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It could drop 70 feet too.
And I could marry Kathy Ireland. Never mind that both outcomes are essentially impossible.
Look at all that prime real estate lost since the last Ice Age!
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