Inundation
Denial Problem?
by Isaac Cordel
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Sea-level rise, bad and worse case, a tide of debate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_global_warming
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September 2015
Climate Change's Worst-Case Scenario: 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise
Burning all of the world's known fossil fuel reserves has a scary result: submerging New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and other cities, new research shows.
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via Deutsche Welle
According to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, global temperatures would rise by an average of 12 degrees Celsius (22 degrees Fahrenheit) if we were to burn all fossil fuel resources on Earth. That would result in melt-off of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, and all the ice covering Greenland.
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via Newsweek
Worst-Case Scenario: If We Burn All Remaining Fossil Fuels, Antarctica Would Melt Entirely, Raise Sea Level 200 Feet
Few peer-reviewed study titles sound quite so much like a line spoken by the bad-news-bearing scientist from a dystopian sci-fi movie. But there it is. A real-world—and apparently very possible—dystopia.
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via NASA speech by co-director of Old Dominion University's Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative and director of the university's Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute
http://www.nasa.gov/langley/odu-professor-believes-we-should-prepare-for-worst-case-sea-level-rise
ODU Professor Believes We Should Prepare for Worst-Case Sea Level Rise
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How much will sea levels rise in the 21st century?
What the science says...
Sea levels are rising faster now than in the previous century, and could rise between 50cm to 1.5 metres by 2100
Climate Myth... what climate change denial says...
Sea level rise predictions are exaggerated
"Professor Niklas Mörner, who has been studying sea level for a third of a century, says it is physically impossible for sea level to rise at much above its present rate, and he expects 4-8 inches of sea level rise this century, if anything rather below the rate of increase in the last century. In the 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age, sea level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone." (Christopher Monckton)
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More on inundation debate via URLs with a point of view
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation
http://judithcurry.com/2015/07/26/hansens-backfire/
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