Posted on 03/15/2009 2:18:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PARIS (AFP) – A predicted slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents will cause sea levels along the US northeast coast to rise twice as fast as the global average, exposing New York and other big cities to violent and frequent storm surges, according to a new study.
Manhattan's Wall Street, barely a metre (three feet) above sea level, for example, will find itself underwater more often as the 21st century unfolds, said the study, published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience.
Sea levels vary across regions by up to 24 centimetres (9.5 inches), influenced in part by powerful currents that coarse around the globe in a pattern called the thermohaline circulation.
In the Atlantic, warm water moving north along the surface from the Gulf of Mexico helps temper cold winters in western Europe and along the US east coast, while frigid Arctic waters run south along the bottom of the sea.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in early 2007 that expanding ocean water driven by climate change will drive up sea levels, on average, anywhere from 18 to 59 centimetres (seven to 23 inches) by 2100, depending on how successful we are at slashing greenhouse gas emissions.
This rising water mark will erase several island nations from the map, and is likely to cause devastation in Asian and African deltas home to tens of millions of people.
More recent studies, taking the impact of melting ice sheets in Greenland and the Western Antarctic into account, forecast an even higher increase of at least one metre (39 inches) over the same period.
Jianjun Yin of Florida State University and two colleagues wanted to find out what impact these sea level rises would have at a regional level, especially along the American eastern seaboard.
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Some idiots 15 minutes of fame again.
A pedestrian passes in front of the statue of a bull in the Wall Street area in New York City. A predicted slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents will cause sea levels along the US northeast coast to rise twice as fast as the global average, exposing New York and other big cities to violent and frequent storm surges, according to a new study. (AFP/File/Doug Kanter)
Now I know it's BS!
Wall Street is already underwater, for god’s sake.
Why worry? There wont be a Wall Street anyways once this Kenyan imbecile is done throwing our money away.
Britains's Prince Charles, seen here speaking at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro, warned Thursday that the current global financial crisis is "nothing" compared to the impact of climate change as he called for urgent environmental protection measures. (AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)
Maybe this is what Travis Bickle meant when he said, “someday a real rain is gonna come to wash the scum off the streets.”
Big cities like Denver?
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
I love this stuff. I don't trust the 3-day forecast. I'm gonna look to the UCS for guidance?
Move to the second floor.
Idiots pimping for research money.
Get a real job and quit sucking the life blood out of all the rest of us!
YAWNNNnnnnnnn
Florida State University = Free Shoe University
I'll never get tired of describing FSU that way.
The usual suspects.
I prefer to call them Clown U.
Just makin’ sure everyone has had their RDA ration of gubamint sponsored propaganda .. and then some. ;-)
no nascar race today, a nap sound awful good.
I generally hail folks from FSU with FU!
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