How high's the water, momma?

[pscot]

Higher than expected, says nbc news.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/28/15512957-sea-level-rose-60-percent-faster-than-un-projections-study-finds?lite

Projections for sea level rise in coming decades could be too conservative, experts warned Wednesday, saying they found that the rise over the last two decades is much more than predicted by the U.N. scientific body tracking climate signals.


In a peer-reviewed study, the experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters (0.1 inch) a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for that period

[hollysmom]

1. just let me know when it reaches over 17 feet above current levels now,

I live inland but near a tidal river. I really don't think I will rebuild at the beach, just hope it does not cost too much for demo.

[pscot]

2. I live on an island

But I'm not worried yet.

[Viking12]

5. I live an an island too!

But I'm 740' above sea level. So I'm good.

[hollysmom]

6. how do you get to and fro on that island - bet the bridges are closer to the water.

being on main land does give me an exit route.

[Viking12]

7. Bridges, yes.

It's a relatively small island on an inland lake in WI. We don't face many natural catastrophe threats here. Unless there's total social collapse, it's unlikely that I'll have a need for an exit route. In the case there is a total social collapse, I'm not sure I'd want to leave.

[hollysmom]

8. ha ha - in that case, got room fo a guest? with a dog?? A hunting dog!

[Viking12]

9. I'm not sure my wife or my dog would be cool with that

[Speck Tater]

3. "Faster than we expected" from yet another quarter.

Seems every day we hear about another aspect of global warming that's happening faster than predicted. And yet some people still think there's no such thing, or that even if the planet is warming, it's not so bad.

[toby jo]

4. It's supposed to hit the poorest among us the worse.

Wouldn't ya know?

We've gotta design an environmental catastrophe that'll morph into wall street somehow. Maybe a swine flu that'll attach itself to skin that's recently been exposed to diamonds and rolexs'. Oh the pain.