Science Daily - Improved Ice-Sheet Modeling Suggests Oceans' Rise From Greenland @ 2X Projections

[hatrack]

ScienceDaily (Feb. 12, 2008) — A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

The research also demonstrates how remote sensing and digital imaging techniques can produce rich datasets without field data in some cases.

Traditionally, ice sheet models are very simplified, according to Beata Csatho, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and lead author of the paper.* "Ice sheet models usually don't include all the complexity of ice dynamics that can happen in nature," said Csatho. "This research will give ice sheet modelers more precise, more detailed data."

The implications of these richer datasets may be dramatic, Csatho said, especially as they impact climate projections and sea-level rise estimates, such as those made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "If current climate models from the IPCC included data from ice dynamics in Greenland, the sea level rise estimated during this century could be twice as high as what they are currently projecting," she said.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080211172517.htm

[aquart]

1. Coastal cities destroyed, millions of refugees, millions dead.

Total destabilization of government and services.

You want change? You're getting it.

[lapfog_1]

2. I know you are bitter

but WTF kind of remark is that?

Are you blaming Obama or his supporters for Global Warming?

Or do you think this is the kind of change they desire?

And it won't be millions dead... it will be billions dead. Mankind has shown no ability to control our individual survival mode instincts in favor of species survival. Easter Island is a prime example of what may happen to our entire planet. No one is addressing the core issue, that of population control.

[aquart]

3. I'm saying this is the change you'll get.

And all that feel good rah rah is just....dancing on the deck of the Titanic.

Population control is not a relevant issue. The population will be controlled by mass death.

But you go on and be hopeful, darling. I'm sure you and all of yours will be survivors.

[kestrel91316]

4. "....twice as high as what they are currently projecting....."

Oh, dear. Faster than projected. No one could have forseen THIS.

[Delphinus]

5. Thanks, hatrack.

I just found this story in my email, which is why I came back here to check to see if it was posted.

This needs to be seen - bumping.