Forecast for big sea level rise

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Sea levels could rise by up to one-and-a-half metres by the end of this century, according to a new scientific analysis.
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Sea level rise of this magnitude would have major impacts on low-lying countries such as Bangladesh.
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The IPCC was unable to include the contribution from "accelerated" melting of polar ice sheets as water temperatures warm because the processes involved were not yet understood.

The new analysis comes from a UK/Finnish team which has built a computer model linking temperatures to sea levels for the last two millennia.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7349236.stm

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From the article: "Eighty to 90% of Bangladesh is within a metre or so of sea level". :scared:

[greyl]

1. No problem.

We'll just have to conquer Earth even better than we have been. Our civilization is the most important human achievement ever and must not be abandoned at any cost.

[OKthatsIT]

2. Before they make you all panic...

We're still technically coming out of an Ice Age. Bangladesh was always going to go under water...and all the experts know it.

[tom_paine]

3. Actually, quite the reverse is true. We should have been heading back into one right now.

But hey, what do climatology experts who have been studying the science for years know?

Not as much as Michael Savage, that's for sure.

:sarcasm: :puke:

[greyl]

4. Panic isn't required or desired.

What must happen is for a significant amount of the people in our culture to start living in a new way.
It will require sacrifice, inventiveness, and a reasonable assessment of the spot we've gotten into and what we've done wrong to get us here.