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25 Years of Satellite Data Shows Global Warming Is Accelerating Sea Level Rise (usnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows. At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters) higher by the end of the century compared to today, according to researchers who published in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Sea level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and melting from glaciers and ice sheets. The research, based on 25 years of satellite data, shows that pace has quickened, mainly from the melting of massive ice sheets. It confirms scientists' computer simulations and is in line with predictions from the United Nations, which releases regular climate change reports. Of the 3 inches (7.5 centimeters) of sea level rise in the past quarter century, about 55 percent is from warmer water expanding, and the rest is from melting ice. But the process is accelerating, and more than three-quarters of that acceleration since 1993 is due to melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, the study shows.
Well Iâ(TM)m sure glad random anonymous coward is here to point out how all the scientists are wrong. Thank god for the internet!
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Having spent some time in LA and NYC honestly them being underwater isn't all bad. You'd be able to drive a speedboat to work from your home on a giant civilian version of an aircraft carrier to another giant ship. Or you could evolve into a Gill Man.
And NYC's elevation is 10m. So it will take 5000 years or so for it to be inundated. I think it's fair to assume that even with NYC's Gotham City levels of corruption, graft and incompetence government would be able to build 10m of sea wall. That's 1.9mm per year. Even 3mm per year - what the UK apparently uses when planning sea defences - shouldn't be a problem.
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