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…"
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is."
Hahaha
Does the name “Noah” ring a bell?
wy69
Or not.
Could could could. Could you give them more money to study? Could you please?
Barack Obama, 2007
“this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”
Oceanfront Property in Arizona.
Snorkels are fine, but scuba gear, like haul out platforms, are only for the certified wealthy. Just make sure your mask is N-95 or better, none of those rubber ones will do, preferred are the cloth ones with filters.
It’s not the sea level rising. It’s the land rising and the land falling in various parts of the planet. That’s what if you look at the sea level tables from various parts of the planet from the last 200 years you will see that in some places the sea level has risen and in others the sea level has dropped. It’s because the landmass itself is making slight changes.
It’s not the sea level rising. It’s the land rising and the land falling in various parts of the planet. That’s what if you look at the sea level tables from various parts of the planet from the last 200 years you will see that in some places the sea level has risen and in others the sea level has dropped. It’s because the landmass itself is making slight changes.
Geologist have found rocks formed at the North Pole at the equator. (Total ice age) and that the Mediterranean Sea has pretty much dried up. in the past.
The climate has been everywhere before we were even here.
From what I’ve read the current computer model that the global socialist are using doesn’t factor in sun spots (warming) and volcanic activity (cooling).
Barry and other corrupt democrats ( taking bribes ) love to zoom around in large private jets ( owned by their billionaire pals ) to go to Googlag / climate change / great reset Marxist conferences half way around the world.
Start burning tires in the backyard.
“could exceed” . . . they haven’t been right yet. . .more BS
I’m at 2800’ so I should be good for awhile.
The whole world was covered in water a few thousand years back (the flood), so that explains the ice age and all that. Don’t tell the climate change people though, the mere mention of God will cause then great emotional hardship.
“could”
As in coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Guess what, the sea level has been rising since the end of the last great northern glaciers. We continue to be in a cycle that is part of “the end of the last ice age”.
And in the last 100 years (when we started burning so much fossil fuels) the rate of sea level rise has not been greater than the rate for the last 1,000 years.
However, we are at a stage in human development where we have the technical knowledge for developing the means, any means, to mitigate and adapt to changes brought on by any “climate change”; and mitigation and adaptation is where human investment should go, not chasing after CO2.
There is a seawall near the home I grew up in. In 60 years the water level at high tide is still at the same level.
The Obama Compound on Cape Cod up for sale?
Didn’t think so.
I thought the sea level rise stopped the day that Grand Caliph Baraq assumed the throne in 2009?
OK, I’ve done this several times on the rising sea-level stories. There is a ‘path’ in England called the ‘Broomway’. It is a pubic right of way. It is covered by the tide twice a day, so it is called the ‘most dangerous path in England’. It’s been in use for over 600 years. It is still in use now. If the sea level were truly rising wouldn’t this path be gone by now?
Here’s a video showing the path...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM7C_Pw7OL8
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