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be flooded by a 20 foot rise in sea level? And I'd bet a good three fourths of the buildings are on that part. Maybe even the capitol building, and the Attorney General's office.
We're all pretty strange one way or another; some of us just hide it better. "Normal" is a dryer setting.
by david78209 on Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 08:00:14 AM PDT
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The boldest predictions I am aware of are about 100cm over the next 100 years. Where does 20 feet come from?
by 1918 on Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 08:17:20 AM PDT
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...
They say complete melting of the Greenland ice cap would raise sea level 23 feet; though they don't venture a guess how likely that is.
More recently the same source, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...
By the end of this century the seas may be three feet (one meter) higher than they are today, according to a pair of studies that appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. "After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter—or three feet—per one hundred years," said Jonathan Overpeck, an earth scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who co-authored the studies. "And it could go faster," he added.
By the end of this century the seas may be three feet (one meter) higher than they are today, according to a pair of studies that appear in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science.
"After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter—or three feet—per one hundred years," said Jonathan Overpeck, an earth scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who co-authored the studies.
"And it could go faster," he added.
Nobody sounds confident it will happen, but none of the experts would be surprised.
by david78209 on Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 08:49:57 AM PDT
wide narrow
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