'Best estimate' for impact of melting ice on sea level rise

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22527273

Researchers have published their most advanced calculation for the likely impact of melting ice on global sea levels.

The EU funded team say the ice sheets and glaciers could add 36.8 centimetres to the oceans by 2100.

Adding in other factors, sea levels could rise by up to 69 centimetres, higher than previous predictions.

The researchers say there is a very small chance that the seas around Britain could rise by a metre.

[GliderGuider]

1. So we should probably treat 69 cm. as the lower bound.

Given that things always happen XemaSab.

[CRH]

2. I think they are seriously low balling, ...

If the World Bank, Price Waterhouse, and UNEP reports of the past six months are accurate, the scenarios for business as usual, support models of 4*C mean global temperature rise above pre industrial levels, from between 2060 to 2100. The reports specifically warned we don't want to arrive at a 4*C plateau, adaption would be extremely stressful for social, economic, and agricultural concerns.

Well I've seen no evidence suggesting anything other than business as usual, 'Big Oil' is even touting the US will be producing 50% of the global oil and gas in the future with enhancement of shale extraction and fracking. China has coal generation ramped up for the next thirty years, and globalization is not receding but rather is expanding in Asia, India and Africa.

At .8*C, land and sea ice are melting, how many glaciers and icebergs will be around at 3*C & 4*C global mean temperature rise. With BAU I think sea level rises will be measured many meters, not centimeters.

I wonder who funds the 'EU team' who have researched these conclusions? The bean counters sure don't agree.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The EU funds them

"The EU funded team ". This is like saying "the federally funded team".

[pscot]

3. 70 cm=28 inches

Impacting 88,633 miles of US tidal shoreline. We're gonna need bigger sand dunes.

[Delphinus]

4. Thanks for the translation.

I was just going to go find a converter.