Some of these well meaning articles do more harm than good. The real threat for sea level rise is the Greenland Ice Sheet, which is currently resting on land. If all of that ice were to melt, it would release enough water to raise global sea levels by an insane 24 feet — enough to pretty much wipe out most coastal cities. That extreme case is still probably hundreds of years off, BM means well but to a degree misses the point. The loss of sea ice unleashes so many positive feedback loops and opens the door to the release of gigatonnes of methane hydrates which caused the Permian extinction. Whats with the moratorium on mentioning methane when Wadhams has been warning about it for decades and Jason Box as long as he has been investigating the ice caps?
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 16:20:02 +0000
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