James Annan wrote: > Zeke Hausfather wrote: >> I recently stumbled upon an ABC 20/20 segment titled "Last Days on >> Earth" including interviews with Hansen, Oppenheimer, and others and >> warning of "billions of casualties" and implying the possibility of 40 >> feet of sea level rise within a century. >> >> You can find it here: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zk4-JPCdg >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XClNHfmFDog >> >> They include a segment with Hansen where, the way the quote is cut, he >> seems to be implying that a complete melting of the Greenland ice >> sheet prior to 2050 is possible. >> > ...tumbleweed... > > it's even better than you said, because the graphics right at the end of > the first section show large parts of most land masses being submerged > (and by large part, I don't mean a significant coastal strip, but eg the > whole SE of the UK). > > ...tumbleweed... > > James
Just as an aside, if you want to visualize the effect of any value of hypothetical sea level rise or fall there's a nice little applet here: http://merkel.zoneo.net/Topo/Applet/ Ray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
