Posted on 12/24/2020 3:41:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Of the many threats from climate change, sea-level rise will most certainly be among the most impactful, making hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastline uninhabitable and potentially displacing over 100 million people worldwide by the end of the century. This threat is a top concern for national security experts because forced migration poses significant risks to international security and stability.
The magnitude of this threat depends heavily on how much the oceans rise in the coming decades. But because of the complex dynamics of massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, exact estimates remain elusive, ranging from just over a foot to several feet above current levels. That disparity is the difference between tens of millions of people forced from their homes or a much more unmanageable hundreds of millions displaced.
Now, a new paper published in the past week warns that if global warming continues at the current pace — reaching high-end warming projections for 2100 — then sea-level rise will probably surpass those projections.
John Englander is a co-author of the paper and author of the books "High Tide on Main Street" and the soon-to-be-released "Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward." He says this paper is a reaction to a "chorus of concern in the scientific community that the projections for rising sea level were understated."
In the paper, they write: "Existing ice-sheet models are more likely to provide reliable projections if global warming is kept below 2º Celsius [3.6º Fahrenheit], but a world in which warming exceeds 4º Celsius [7.2º Fahrenheit] presents a much more challenging situation. It is quite possible that this extreme situation will lead to reactions and feedbacks in the atmosphere-ocean-ice systems that cannot be adequately modeled at present…"
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Oh goodie!
Now maybe it will drown out COVID-19!
But until then....feh!
So my Nevada beachfront property investment is gonna pay off? LOL
“could” bs
It could also fall way short of projections, skeptics warn, noting their long track record of correct predictions.
Now maybe it will drown out COVID-19!
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Just be sure you wear your mask!
I thought that the Arctic ice cap was supposed to have been gone by now? And that we were also going to get at least one (or even more) Hurricane Katrina sized storm each year.
Have these alarmists been right about anything? If they actually had anything that was correct they would have ONE model and it would be correct in what it predicts. Instead, they continually produce models that are not predictive in any correct measure of future results. There are simply too may variables to predict what the climate will do in the future. As usual, it’s mostly about $$$$$$$$.
Pigs, believing Orange Man is leaving, returning to the American $$$ trough.
The current “Covid stimulus” bill would dump many, many billions into it.
Just so I make sure I understand this correctly: they’re admitting their projections are off AND they want us to trust their new projections?
Good. More fish!
Victoria Stodden really tell what’s going on IMO...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1-nkqwmjI
HOORAY VS
And snorkel?
Agree with your astute assessment 100%. Thanks.
Whatever. Good way to drown the Rats.
BELATED WELCOME ABOARD! Merry Chistmas to you and all FReepers.
Just like with Covid, the cure is always worse than the disease.
The left would enslave us and impoverish us to prevent a supposedly possible catastrophe.
Even if global warming turns out to be a real thing, and oceans really do rise, I’d rather deal with natural disasters than the manmade disaster of global Communism.
If New York and California are under water, I like the Republicans chances of winning every Presidential election in the next century. This makes me want to leave my car running even when I’m not in it... Just to speed things up.
They are findings artifacts every day in coastal and lake waters, were they caused by the dreaded man made globull warming millennia ago?
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