Posted on 03/10/2009 11:12:02 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested.
Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low and that sea levels could rise by a metre or more by 2100.
The projections did not include the potential impact of polar melting and ice breaking off, they added.
The implications for millions of people would be "severe", they warned.
Ten per cent of the world's population - about 600 million people - live in low-lying areas.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, had said that the maximum rise in sea level would be in the region of 59cm.
Professor Konrad Steffen from the University of Colorado, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, highlighted new studies into ice loss in Greenland, showing it has accelerated over the last decade.
Professor Steffen, who has studied the Arctic ice for the past 35 years, told me: "I would predict sea level rise by 2100 in the order of one metre; it could be 1.2m or 0.9m.
"But it is one metre or more seeing the current change, which is up to three times more than the average predicted by the IPCC."
"It is a major change and it actually calls for action."
Dr John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research added: "The most recent research showed that sea level is rising by 3mm a year since 1993, a rate well above the 20th century average."
Ice flow
Professor Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that results gathered since the IPCC showed that melting and ice loss could not be overlooked.
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All those people having waterfront homes are gonna be pissed...............
Actually, the northern part of the US and Canada is rising, having been squished for thousands of years by glaciers.
Maybe we could get rid of San Francisco with this????
I hope the sea rises to just below AlGores nose....
sea level looks set to rise(I love this phrase, so this is my second response to it.)
The only thing set to rise from all this is the funding these dip-sh1ts get from promoting this garbage religion.
Well does it stay the same?
The last time I tried this I used scotch instead of water and for some reason the level actually went down, way down.
But is not this statement itself the forecast?That's right. The PAST forecast is bad.
It's this CURRENT forecast we all have to believe.
It reminds me of a trial scene on a court drama TV show, you know, when someone on the stand wants to change their story claims they were lying when they first testified and the lawyer asks:
So you admit you're a liar but THIS time you say you're not lying. Do we have that right?
Maybe the BBC need to read this:
“Arctic sea ice underestimated by 193,000 square miles”
“Really. Set. To. Rise.”
I think it is getting ready to prepare to start to move forward to set to rise.
Or not.
I mean, it is only “suggesting”.
They will still be spewing this nonsense as advancing glaciers scrape them off the south end of Manhattan Island.LOL!
So, a 3 ft. rise in 90 years is a problem? That's less than half an inch per year.
BBC-BS
Who cares? I’m more worried about my 401k falling than sea levels rising.
I'm accepting applications from concerned liberals to be the first to leave the planet to save it.
Sure, we believe you. That “Wolf” turned up again and you yelled again, didn’t you?.....
Nope, he's right: 1mm = 0.03937" lets call it 0.04", close enough for government work, so 3mm/year x 0.04"/mm = 0.120"/year or about an eighth of an inch per year
8years x 0.12"/year = 0.96" about one inch in eight years
Ain't math wonderful?
Regards,
GtG
Yes. it’s always “may”, “might”, “could”. Also, it’s always 50 or 100 years hence, when we’ll all be dead. In the meantime, they get grants to continue their study of climate change for the rest of their lives.
What a hot steaming pile of male bovine patty this story is.
Don’t feel bad, the guy in the article predicted 1 meter (39”) by 2100 so he was of by a factor of 38.
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