-- John
On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:21 PM, John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:06 PM, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:33:28AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
Yes, the glaciers in Iceland are retreating - to reveal the ruins of farmhouses.
And while they melt they raise global sea levels, projected to raise a minimum of ~3ft bt 2100. And sea levels won't magically stop raising at 2100. This spells fucking catastrophe for major coastal cities -> e.g. New York, Miami, Bangkok, New Orleans, etc etc.
I've recently read that sea level is rising about 2.6-2.9 millimeters per year. in 84 years, that would be 0.231 meters, or a bit less than one half foot. Where do you get the "a minimum of 3 feet"?
A book called The Flooded Earth by Peter Ward, an astrobiologist with NASA. But there are lots of places on the net that quote similar numbers -
https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/science/future.html#sealevel