[blam]

Global warming ping.

[Tax-chick]

Do you think 600 years will be enough time for them to organize an evacuation, or will they all be sitting their office towers as the waves wash over the roofs?

[VadeRetro]

Pumping out underground water while increasng the weight of surface structures is not global warming.

[Dan Cooper]

How can they even measure a sea level rise of twenty millimeters? That seems like it would be well under the "noise" margin. Perhaps the Dutch will give them a good price for Shanghai.

[whereasandsoforth]

I'm not sure I'd feel safe in a six hundred year old skyscraper.

[finnman69]

Parts of Venice have been periodically underwater for centuries now.

So what.

[Natural Law]

If is does sink in to the ocean that filthy sh*t-hole will leave a ring around the world!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Eala]

the gleaming skyscrapers of China's financial hub Shanghai could be entirely submerged in 600 years

Shanghai ... sank as much as 2.63m between 1921 and 1965

The sea had risen 20mm since 2000 and should keep climbing over the next decade

Rule #1: Always run the numbers.

Lessee, 2.63m in 44 years. 2.63 x 600 / 44 = 36 m.
20 mm in 4 years. 20e-3 x 600 / 4 = 3 m.
Linear projected subsidence relative to sea level over 600 years = 39 m, or about 125 feet.

Man, are those ever some tall skyscrapers!

[Diddle E. Squat]

The headline writer could have done better:

"Soliloquist Scientist Says Shining Shanghai May Slowly and Silently Slip Under the Shimmering Sea"

Now say it ten times as fast as you can...

[Agnes Heep]

Reminds me of what Moe once said to Curly: "For two cents I'd knock your brains out ... if you had brains."