Sea levels set to rise by up to a meter: report

[Playinghardball]

Source: AFP via Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY (AFP) – Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make "once-a-century" coastal flooding much more common.

The government's first Climate Commission report said the evidence that the Earth's surface was warming rapidly was beyond doubt.

Drawn from the most up-to-date climate science from around the world, the report said greenhouse gas emissions created by human industry was the likely culprit behind rising temperatures, warming oceans, and rising sea levels.

Its author Will Steffen said while the report had been reviewed by climate scientists from Australian science body the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and academics, some judgments, including on sea level

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/23/sea-levels-set-to-rise-by-up-to-a-meter-report/

[Javaman]

1. for now. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I grew up on Long Island Sound. My school was three blocks from the water & 5 feet above sea level.

My house was a block closer to the water, and presumably less than 5 feet above sea level. There are lots of places, in big urban areas, that are like this.

[bobbolink]

3. Years ago, small islands in the Pacific were being drowned.

But, they are poor and brown people, so it doesn't matter.

[daa]

4. Written by Camping nt

[Ezlivin]

5. -1

Written by scientists.

What the fuck does the asshat evangelical Camping have to do with this scientific report?