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West Africa's coastline redrawn by climate change: experts
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| 08/22/08
| Aminu Abubakar
Posted on 08/22/2008 2:18:06 PM PDT by Abathar
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posted on
08/23/2008 6:37:54 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Joan Kerrey
Well, we know who his VP pick is now. Most-liberal-in-Senate/3rd-most-liberal-in Senate 2008! I won’t settle for a lesser evil any longer!
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posted on
08/23/2008 6:41:55 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Abathar; cogitator
Cramer said sea levels were set to rise up to two centimetres (0.8 inches) per year, enough to devastate large swathes of fragile coastline, especially in low-lying and densely populated deltas.Interesting. About what time is this supposed to start?
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08/23/2008 6:46:15 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Abathar
And here I thought that a rise in sea level would be the same world wide. OBTW How much has sea level risen in the last 100 years?
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posted on
08/23/2008 6:51:33 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Obama's Pay Grade: Chump Change - Under the Cone of Stupid)
To: Abathar
“West Africa’s coastline redrawn by climate change”
Are they sure it isn’t plain old genocide that’s redrawing the coastlines? :(
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posted on
08/23/2008 7:37:36 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Abathar
It’s not wise to build to close to any body of water. Rivers, lakes, the ocean, can all rise and flood you out.
Despite that fact, people flock to the water’s edge.
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posted on
08/24/2008 11:22:52 AM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
To: Abathar
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not taken into account the potential impact of runoff from the 3,000-metre (1.9 mile) thick Greenland ice cap, which covers an areas three times the size of Nigeria.Probably because that ice cap is getting thicker, not thinner.
I've often wondered what the African coastline looked like back when the Vikings settled Greenland, and there wasn't an icecap....
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posted on
08/26/2008 3:16:56 AM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(My Walmart still has 7 copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" for sale)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Interesting. About what time is this supposed to start?Well, if you read the article, it basically says that it would start when/if the Greenland Ice Cap starts melting at an accelerated rate. Tbey don't specify a time for that other than it could potentially happen this century. Or next. Or not.
IN case you think I'm being glib:
Greenland glacier crack points to disintegration
From: PHOTOS: Huge Greenland Glacier Disintegrating
I recommend reading the text. The pictures were from July, as you can see, the first linked article from 4 days ago.
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