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bobabode 07-28-2013 07:54 PM

Greenland is Melting
 
Rolling Stone article about Greenland's glaciers.
http://www.rollingstone.com/greenland-melting

Goodbye, Miami?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...drown-20130620

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...rming-20130619

hillbilly 07-28-2013 10:00 PM

Why would the water level rise only there?

BlueStreak 07-28-2013 10:24 PM

It doesn't. That's the whole point. Ice melting in the northern and southern extremes are known to cause a rise in sea levels globally.

Dave

bobabode 07-28-2013 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hillbilly (Post 166820)
Why would the water level rise only there?

It won't. It'll be the same all over the planet with some pretty catastrophic results for low lying areas. Miami and a lot of Florida is very near sea level.

bobabode 07-28-2013 11:12 PM

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...-math-20120719

Pesky math.:rolleyes:It's a long article but hey, it's mathematics.

BlueStreak 07-28-2013 11:19 PM

I live on the highest point (residential) in my area----14 feet. I'm ~16 miles from the Atlantic. Many places are even lower than that and more densely populated.

Dave

bobabode 07-28-2013 11:49 PM

I'm at 55 feet or thereabouts. The real problem is the refugees coming from the lower/closer to sea level areas. Not to mention what the somewhat unpredictable effects of warming will do to the food supply. Some of the outlier scientists are saying that we will have a sixty foot rise by the end of this century. That's right, a 60 foot rise in mean sea level. Let's just say they're wrong by 75%? That would only be 15 feet.:(

We're in a slow motion train wreck of biblical proportions. I guess Yahweh wasn't shitting us when he said we would burn this time around. That is, what don't get drowned or starve first.

hillbilly 07-29-2013 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueStreak (Post 166827)
I live on the highest point (residential) in my area----14 feet. I'm ~16 miles from the Atlantic. Many places are even lower than that and more densely populated.

Dave

I'm lucky ( sorta ). I live nearly 1,000 feet and am able to go 2090 if need be. Our foothills are just little anthills compared to folks who live in the real mountains. :o

HarmanKardon 07-29-2013 03:09 AM

Glaciers are melting all over the world. So did my brain during the latest heat wave here.

The Netherlands in danger? Perhaps. It would be sad because the meisjes are so pretty! :D

By the way - we should guard our tongue saying "the climate goes crazy" or "the weather goes crazy". Nature just responds in a natural appropriate manner on the inappropriate impacts caused by mankind.

merrylander 07-29-2013 06:21 AM

At 400 feet we are safe enough but many places along the Chesapeake Bay are at risk and I am not quite sure about the elevation at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear plant. We could be high and dray and in the dark.


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