If you thought the predictions of sea-level rise by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were bad, you should probably stop reading. Researchers publishing in brand-new journal Nature Geoscience say the oceans could surge twice as high this century as the IPCC's predictions, or some 64 inches. So, um, let's hope they're wrong.
source: Reuters
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Delay And Deny Posted 12:39 pm
17 Dec 2007
Amazing!
You're original prediction...is exceeded...by another prediction!
Two nights ago I dreamed I was a monkey, and yesterday I dreamed I was a giraffe!
Everything's getting bigger -- in hypothetical land!
BTW:
Bailo Model forecasts a precipitous drop in sea level.
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Des Emery Posted 2:30 pm
17 Dec 2007
The difficulty is fixing a time line for the events forecast by their studies. The fact of their general "conservativism" downplays the urgency of the situation. Their own surprise at the rapidity of change should alert the rest of us to the immediacy of the problem.
If we look at the same pictures they do, we should realize that the IPCC is way off in its estimate of the time we have left to actually do something about the future right now. It's later - much later - than you think!
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