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South American Glaciers Melting Quickly
blike writes "The BBC is reporting that south american glaciers are melting so fast they've contributed 0.04mm per year to the global sea level since 1975. In the past 8 years, the glaciers have been melting especially rapidly; contributing nearly .1mm to the sea level every year. Another BBC Article further discusses the issue and examins how the changes affect the people living in these areas."
You also have to take into account the land shifting. When you're looking at the large amount of time it's going to take for the water to rise a significant amount, the land it's going to be covering is going to be different. If the land smushes together and becomes higher, we'll have less area to live on, but that less area will last longer, if it flattens out, we'll havbe more land to live on, but we'll be waste deep in water. Unless you're just concerned with how high the water is rising, I'm guessing you're interested in it covering land.
So this means the rest of Stardust should come to light post haste?
But per capita the US produces about 5.5 metric tons of CO2 carbon, by far the world's largest. The figure for China on the other hand is considerably less than 1. Surely, unless the treaty was so restrictive as to bring the US's CO2 emissions down to Chinese levels, some increase must be allowed for China?