Frankly, the media has been a bit overzealous in promoting stories of
massive sea level rise this century. I wrote a piece on this subject
at the Forum a few weeks back:
http://yaleclimatemediaforum.org/dept/0208_sealevelrise.htm
If I had to bet, I'd predict a range of 0.5 to 2 meters this century
given uncertainties in dynamic ice sheet processes. That said, we
really know very little at this point regarding how significant ice
sheet dynamics will be. While we can't rule out Hansen's top end
projections at the moment, there also seems to be no need to stress
them. Instead, we should stress the uncertainties involved at the
moment and encourage more research.
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