On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Alastair wrote: > "If further global warming reaches 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, we will > likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we > know. The last time it was that warm was in the middle Pliocene, about > 3 million years ago, when sea level was estimated to have been about 25 > meters (80 feet) higher than today," Hansen said. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_sc/global_warming_8
This, I'm afraid, is the same old misleading stuff. Read this quickly and you'll thin k(or most of the public will think) "when T gets to +2-3 oC, then sea level will be 25m higher". Which is (probably) wrong. If T stabalises at +2-3 oC, then after a few thousand years sea level will be 25m higher (probably). -W. William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479 If I haven't seen further, it's because giants were standing on my shoulders -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
