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John
> On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:21 PM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote:
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>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:06 PM, jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:33:28AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>> >> Yes, the glaciers in Iceland are retreating - to reveal the ruins of
>> >> farmhouses.
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>> >And while they melt they raise global sea levels, projected to raise
>> >a minimum of ~3ft bt 2100. And sea levels won't magically stop raising
>> >at 2100. This spells fucking catastrophe for major coastal cities
>> -> e.g. New York, Miami, Bangkok, New Orleans, etc etc.
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>> I've recently read that sea level is rising about 2.6-2.9 millimeters per
>> year. in 84 years, that would be 0.231 meters, or a bit less than one half
>> foot. Where do you get the "a minimum of 3 feet"?
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> A book called The Flooded Earth by Peter Ward, an astrobiologist with NASA.
> But there are lots of places on the net that quote similar numbers -
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> https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/science/future.html#sealevel
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> https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/cop19/3_gregory13sbsta.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_sea_level
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John
