http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0706/feature2/index.html
"Right now Greenland is no threat to beachfront property. Steven Nerem of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who monitors sea level by satellite, says the oceans have been rising an eighth of an inch (0.3 centimeter) a year. At that rate the sea would go up a foot (0.3 meters) by 2100, roughly what a United Nations panel on climate change predicted earlier this year. "But that's nothing compared to what we expect if Greenland really starts to go," Nerem says. The latest signs from Greenland have persuaded many ice researchers that sea level could rise three feet (one meter) by 2100. Rignot, who has measured the rush of glaciers to the sea, says even that figure may turn out to be an underestimate. Greenland, he notes, could ultimately add ten feet (three meters) to global sea level, "and if this happens in the next hundred years instead of the next several hundred years, that's a very big deal." Doug here is another global warming article full of deliberate obfuscations and other distortions: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2006/07/31/an-even-more-inconvenient-truth-the-myth-of-man-made-global-warming/ it is true climate change is cyclic, but the present cycle has been hugely accelerated by the last century of industrial and other human caused pollution. when added to natural processes generated by volcanoes, termites, solar storms, and other greenhouse factors, climate change will occur much sooner and have disastrous effects on human civilization. another thing deliberately not mentioned in the article is that glaciation can be triggered by global warming when the ocean currents shift jon m Knowledge is Power ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
