Greenland Ice Cap melt would inundate world\'s coast

[lovuian]

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The meltdown of the Greenland ice cap within the next 300 years will raise global sea levels by 22 feet, enough to inundate most of the world's coastal regions, according to a new study by a researcher from the University East Anglia, England.

It was previously thought that a total meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet would occur at least 1,000 years later.

However, Dr Tim Lenton believes the risks are far greater.

He says the world is close to being committed to a collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, although he doesn't believe a tipping point has yet been reached.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, Greenland's ice cap is nearly two miles high, but if the climate change crisis were to reach the point of no return and the ice sheet were to melt, then global sea levels would rise by 22 feet and swallow up most of the world's coastal regions.
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He talks about the stopping of the Gulf Stream and then said Weat Antartica melting would be next
Very ugly

[aquart]

1. Let's see. Millions of flood refugees confronting inlanders

Crippled by massive, weather-related crop failures.

Fun times for the future.

[soothsayer]

2. I'm gettin' a gun.

[Bobbieo]

3. It's happened before but people weren't invented , yet.

[lovuian]

4. Boy Blair and Bush should have signed Kyoto

Mother nature is taking care of CO2 emissions

she will drown them