New projections of the effects of melting Anarctic ice caps: sea waves above Washington D.C. The researchers project sea level variation will not be uniform around the globe. It will be much higher in North America and the Indian Ocean. And, they say, if the entire West Antarctic ice sheet disappears it could raise sea level more than fifteen feet in some areas. That melting ice sheet is largely above today’s current sea levels.
I recently blogged about the effects of rising ocean levels in Bangladesh, probably the most endangered mainland country along the Indian Ocean. I predict a boom in levee building the world over. Imagine how much the U.S. Corps of Engineers could spend trying to save Washington. At least as much as we’ve spent “saving” Citicorp I suspect.
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Summary: New projections of the effects of melting Anarctic ice caps: sea waves above Washington D.C. The researchers project sea level variation will not be uniform around the globe. It will be much higher in North America and the Indian Ocean. And, they say, if the entire West Antarctic ice sheet disappears it [...]
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Total control of the 'peons' and the social elites will
enjoy all of the luxuries they have deemed sinful!
The horror, where is Al Gore someone call our
planet saviour he is our hope.
elites in our fascist United States will use the problem to squash us even
more.
TripleII
Ooops, sorry. I got carried away by the OP's blog post. So let me understand here - solar radiation increases global warming/climate change/Al Gore's fortune, warming melts the icecaps and glaciers, increased water and temps leads to more evaporation, more evaporation leads to more cloud cover, more cloud cover leads to less solar radiation, less solar radiation leads to cooler temps, cooler temps leads to more ice... Wait a minute!!!
I guess that's why all the doomsayers are now refering to it as "Climate Change." That way, they won't be wrong regardless of the results. In the interim, best to invest in carbon cap-and-trade stocks as Al & Co. will make their money, science be d@mned.
So, I guess the world really does revolve around Wastington now?
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/pumpkin_planet_021205.html
Between 1997 and 1998, however, that rounding tendency suddenly reversed, satellite data showed, and the equator seems to have been getting fatter ever since.
...
"Our solution to the puzzle is rather straightforward, and involves redistribution of water mass from high to low latitudes, in quantities sufficient to counteract the ongoing effects of post-glacial rebound,"
Don't let a little real science get in the way of dramatic headlines. How is so much garbage science published in so many places?
TripleII
But maybe we can chain Al "I invented the internet" Gore to an anthill on the mall.
This after the prediction that the North Pole would be melted away by September of 2008. Hey.....it's still there and bigger than ever !
Al Gore would lose millions if we keep talking like this.....
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