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burnsei sensei

(1,820 posts)
4. One difference of opinion here:
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 08:30 AM
Dec 2012
But the low-lying areas of West Bengal and Bangladesh, and of the Egyptian Delta, are especially vulnerable to the one-meter sea level rise that the COP18 failure has ensured will occur within 80 years.


One conference is not going to change any of this.
It was coming for decades, and reversing it may take centuries or millennia.
Another thing you did not mention will go missing when Alexandria is submerged-- the Coptic See.
But then, the majority will probably not mourn its loss.
The proud in their conceit, all over the world, will try to imagine that they have lost nothing.

Keep voting for those Koch Brothers America! sellitman Dec 2012 #1
I'm not arguing at all about the sea rise here, just pointing out a fact most people aren't aware of Victor_c3 Dec 2012 #2
Interesting article dipsydoodle Dec 2012 #17
When I saw the OP, I didn't know which one was meant. DFW Dec 2012 #3
One difference of opinion here: burnsei sensei Dec 2012 #4
Your estimates/info may be way off. Coyotl Dec 2012 #5
Antarctica is adding snowpack. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #6
Why? NoOneMan Dec 2012 #7
The immobility of the ice, and the total amount of heat required to melt it. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #8
Thanks. That is a lot of ice NoOneMan Dec 2012 #9
Yep. The methane releases kind of scare the shit out of me. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #12
Yes, in the highest elevations and the glacier is losing 60 cm a year at low elevations Coyotl Dec 2012 #11
Wrong 'end' of the planet. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #13
Both ends of the planet. Coyotl Dec 2012 #15
True, but the story down south is more complex than that. AtheistCrusader Dec 2012 #16
Antarctica is in fact losing ice NickB79 Dec 2012 #18
kick for later. eom ellenfl Dec 2012 #10
This may get the attention of those one-percenters living in the Hamptons wtmusic Dec 2012 #14
..by the end of this century... truebrit71 Dec 2012 #19
Similar article about Vancouver, BC NoOneMan Dec 2012 #20
The only thing I disagree with is about building dikes for a 1m rise muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #21
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