Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/10/2009 11:12:02 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested.
Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low and that sea levels could rise by a metre or more by 2100.
The projections did not include the potential impact of polar melting and ice breaking off, they added.
The implications for millions of people would be "severe", they warned.
Ten per cent of the world's population - about 600 million people - live in low-lying areas.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, had said that the maximum rise in sea level would be in the region of 59cm.
Professor Konrad Steffen from the University of Colorado, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, highlighted new studies into ice loss in Greenland, showing it has accelerated over the last decade.
Professor Steffen, who has studied the Arctic ice for the past 35 years, told me: "I would predict sea level rise by 2100 in the order of one metre; it could be 1.2m or 0.9m.
"But it is one metre or more seeing the current change, which is up to three times more than the average predicted by the IPCC."
"It is a major change and it actually calls for action."
Dr John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research added: "The most recent research showed that sea level is rising by 3mm a year since 1993, a rate well above the 20th century average."
Ice flow
Professor Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that results gathered since the IPCC showed that melting and ice loss could not be overlooked.
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Science is now suggestions?
Hmmm. Why do ice cubes float?
I have some swampland I’ll sell them.
How do we know that sea rise is not actually land sinking?
set to riseReally. Set. To. Rise.
Not now rising.
But...
Set.
To.
Rise.
I’m glad I live on a hill.
Actually, we’ve had so much rain and such a quick temp rise in the past week that there is standing water all over the place here in Southern Wisconsin.
Looks like we’re in for another flood-filled, wet, slow start to Spring.
Now...where do I apply for my Grant Money to study this constant change in precipitation between Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring in a four-season area? ;)
I suggest these people are mentally ill and should be institutionalized.
And that's settled science.
Dr John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research added: “The most recent research showed that sea level is rising by 3mm a year since 1993, a rate well above the 20th century average.”
Wow, an increase of 1 inch in 8 years, if the forecast is accurate in the first place, which it probably isn’t.
*Yawn*
Whew! That's 99 meters less than Al Gore's prediction!
What changes in the polar ice-sheets? The ones that missed counting ice the size of California?
Sounds like a Meter of Dung.
Apparently they haven’t received the memo on the cooling that is going on.
They are really giving Science a bad brand name.
That analysis is a bunch of Obama.
Good. All the more sea to dump tea into!
“The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast...”
But is not this statement itself the forecast? And if so, then we have recursion and we’ll all drown momentarily.
But I’m not holding my breath.
So does hot air. Coincidence?
But the longest term analysis corrects for the rising areas. (Some land is falling - particularly when underground water/oil is pumped out, some rising as earlier glacier loads were removed after the last ice age.)
The key in this “alarmist-press-release” is that ALL the numbers are “fears” and “might be” - the actual levels are going up less than 1 mm per year.
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