On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Give us more money! > > Would you know how much is being spent at the moment?
No. > And in how far would extra money give us more certainty? > > And finally, I've come across socio-economic work (a study on the > impact of 5 m of sea level rise for the Netherlands, which I came > across because I wanted to know more about how expensive it is to > protect against sea level rise, and with a sizeable fraction of the > Netherlands already below sea level ...), which seemed to suggest that > feedback from experts indicated that a worst case scenario is indeed 5 > m over a period of 50 years or so. > > Do you know what the basis for that is? Is there some fundamental > reason why Greenland's ice sheets couldn't slide into the see in > months/weeks/hours? Doing it in 50y would be very fast. OTOH since that would have to involve essentially unknown mechanisms, why not invoke other unknowns to make it faster? -W. > > > William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479 -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
