Greenland is Melting

[bobabode]

Rolling Stone article about Greenland's glaciers.
http://www.rollingstone.com/greenland-melting

Goodbye, Miami?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...drown-20130620

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...rming-20130619

[hillbilly]

Why would the water level rise only there?

[BlueStreak]

It doesn't. That's the whole point. Ice melting in the northern and southern extremes are known to cause a rise in sea levels globally.

Dave

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Why would the water level rise only there?

It won't. It'll be the same all over the planet with some pretty catastrophic results for low lying areas. Miami and a lot of Florida is very near sea level.

[bobabode]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...-math-20120719

Pesky math.It's a long article but hey, it's mathematics.

[BlueStreak]

I live on the highest point (residential) in my area----14 feet. I'm ~16 miles from the Atlantic. Many places are even lower than that and more densely populated.

Dave

[bobabode]

I'm at 55 feet or thereabouts. The real problem is the refugees coming from the lower/closer to sea level areas. Not to mention what the somewhat unpredictable effects of warming will do to the food supply. Some of the outlier scientists are saying that we will have a sixty foot rise by the end of this century. That's right, a 60 foot rise in mean sea level. Let's just say they're wrong by 75%? That would only be 15 feet.

We're in a slow motion train wreck of biblical proportions. I guess Yahweh wasn't shitting us when he said we would burn this time around. That is, what don't get drowned or starve first.

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I live on the highest point (residential) in my area----14 feet. I'm ~16 miles from the Atlantic. Many places are even lower than that and more densely populated.

Dave

I'm lucky ( sorta ). I live nearly 1,000 feet and am able to go 2090 if need be. Our foothills are just little anthills compared to folks who live in the real mountains.

[HarmanKardon]

Glaciers are melting all over the world. So did my brain during the latest heat wave here.

The Netherlands in danger? Perhaps. It would be sad because the meisjes are so pretty!

By the way - we should guard our tongue saying "the climate goes crazy" or "the weather goes crazy". Nature just responds in a natural appropriate manner on the inappropriate impacts caused by mankind.

[merrylander]

At 400 feet we are safe enough but many places along the Chesapeake Bay are at risk and I am not quite sure about the elevation at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear plant. We could be high and dray and in the dark.