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Or maybe you should. The freshened water doesn't get cool enough to sink and that shuts down the gulf stream. It limits heat transfer to the higher latitudes.
Davidson said recent data that has been collected but has yet to be made official indicates sea levels could rise by roughly 3 meters or 9 feet by 2050-2060, far higher and quicker than current projections. Until now most projections have warned of seal level rise of up to 4 feet by 2100.
3 meters, or nine feet. 3 meters is closer to ten feet, but if you round down not up you get 9 feet. nine feet ten inches to be more exact.
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Originally Posted by hawkeye2009
12 inches = 1 foot
9 X 12= 108 inches
It is 2016. In 45 years, we will be at 2061. That is the upper limit of when we are all going to drown, according to the "estimate" (so I am "spotting them" several years).
108/45= 2.4 inches per year. Thanks for the "math lesson".
Of course, a 2.4 inch per year rise in sea level is completely outrageous and absurd for anyone except those in the AGW cult, who are easily fooled.
Jakobshavn is moving at 40 meters a day. 800Km * 1Kn * 0.04Km = 32 cubic Km per day. that would get you about 1/10th of a foot per year for the loss of the ross ice shelf and having it flow at the rate that Jacobshavn is flowing currently. (About 15 years after it lost its tongue) That sea level rise is very reasonable if you do the math.
You indicated doubt on sea level rise, it is already occurring in Miami.
I don't doubt sea level is rising. Did you not see the published paper that I cited? I doubt that it will all of the sudden jump from 3mm+/- per year to 10 feet in 45 years.
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Adapting is easy when you have a thousand years but when you have a hundred years and dense populations near the coast line it is far from simple.
And what do you propose to do about this even if that was the case?
Or maybe you should. The freshened water doesn't get cool enough to sink and that shuts down the gulf stream. It limits heat transfer to the higher latitudes.
I've read quite a lot of papers and watched quite a few lectures on abrupt climate change.
Even your own link is not referring to 'global' cooling or a 'coming ice age' as you have claimed.
I'm all in. Absolutely all in. What do we do about coastal real estate prices? I mean, this is dire we need to do something now? How are the real estate prices (particularly here in the US) reacting to this danger?
Does this rise benefit any flora and fauna in the world?
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