Arden Chatfield
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| Quote (stevestory @ Feb. 14 2007,18:22) | | Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Feb. 14 2007,19:15) | | Quote (stevestory @ Feb. 14 2007,17:48) | | Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Feb. 14 2007,18:23) | | I assume Dave also thinks the "harm" from rising sea levels (up to 200' if the polar ice caps totally melt) is also subjective. |
did you mean 200 centimeters, perhaps? |
No, I've read that if all the earth's ice sheets melted, global sea levels would rise 200 feet. A lot of humans live less than 200 feet above sea level.
Even if only a quarter of them melt, that's ocean levels rising 50 feet. Again, a lot of humans live less than 50 feet above sea level. On top of the enormous climatic/agricultural disruption that Zachriel pointed out.
Of course, it's mostly scientists who believe this, and scientists are all liberals, so that means none of it will happen. So don't worry. |
Anybody got a reference on this? I find it hard to believe. |
Well, the figure was fresh in my mind because I just read it in Bryson's a Short History of Nearly Everything. But there's also this:
| Quote | | If all glaciers and ice caps melt, the projected rise in sea level will be around 0.5 m. Melting of the Greenland ice sheet would produce 7.2 m of sea level rise, and melting of the Antarctic ice sheet would produce 61.1 m of sea level rise.[3] The collapse of the grounded interior reservoir of the West Antarctic ice sheet would raise sea level by 5-6 m.[4] |
...tho that article also says "As most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lie above the snowline and/or base of the permafrost zone, they cannot melt in a timeframe much less than several millennia". Tho I suppose it's still an open question whether a significant *part* of them could melt.
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