Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Ten ft of sea level rise "inevitable" -multiple studies

So here we have it. Whilst Abbott says climate change is crap, he's looking after his and his party's political careers. The planet doesn't give a shit about Tony Abbott, the Lieberals, or indeed humanity itself. The planet will be fine in the long run. It's just that it's all that stuff that happens in between to right itself that's going to be the problem. Whether it's going to be survivable for humanity or not remains to be seen:
At least 10 feet of sea level rise is now guaranteed worldwide; it's all but inevitable, a done deal. An ice sheet two miles thick has collapsed in West Antarctica—glaciologists have been dreading this moment for decades, though in recent years, it was more of a question of when than if—and there is nothing that can stop it from melting now. 

NASA scientists say so, glaciologists say so, researchers who've spent their entire careers studying the slow and increasingly inevitable melt of our planet's permanent ice stores say so. They say so in two new studies debuting this week; one in Science and one in Geophysical Research Letters. They are all saying we should begin getting comfortable with sea levels that lap up 10 feet higher on our shores. more  

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