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.
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