Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 years

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/uoc-slw101711.php

Public release date: 17-Oct-2011

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Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 years

Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global warming. But how frightening of times are we facing? Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute are part of a team that has calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of the atmosphere using climate models. The results have been published in the scientific journal Global and Planetary Change.

"Based on the current situation we have projected changes in sea level 500 years into the future. We are not looking at what is happening with the climate, but are focusing exclusively on sea levels", explains Aslak Grinsted, a researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate, the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

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"In the 20th century sea has risen by an average of 2mm per year, but it is accelerating and over the last decades the rise in sea level has gone approximately 70% faster. Even if we stabilize the concentrations in the atmosphere and stop emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we can see that the rise in sea level will continue to accelerate for several centuries because of the sea and ice caps long reaction time. So it would be 2-400 years before we returned to the 20th century level of a 2 mm rise per year", says Aslak Grinsted.

He points out that even though long-term calculations are subject to uncertainties, the sea will continue to rise in the coming centuries and it will most likely rise by 75 cm by the year 2100 and by the year 2500 the sea will have risen by 2 meters.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.09.006

[pscot]

1. How high's the water, momma

Three foot high and rising.
The pig's on the porch
I've lost my bees
The cow's in water
Up to her knees
The hens are roosting in
The sycamore trees.
Three foot high and rising.

[kestrel91316]

2. Avoid purchasing beachfront real estate. Oh, and as a matter of

national policy: NO BAILOUTS FOR BEACHFRONT PROPERTY OWNERS. You don't have insurance coverage for your losses, too bad, so sad.

People have had adequate warning.

[The Croquist]

3. Rising sea levels for the next 500 years!

Wow and I was sure that sea level rise would suddenly stop after 20,000 years of rising.

Sea level rise has averaged 2 feet per century for 20,000 years before the invention of the SUV. Now we're being warned that it will rise 1.3 feet per century for the next 500 years.

Oh the horrors.

[The Doctor.]

4. What you fail to realize, among other things, is that it's NOT supposed to keep rising.

We're supposed to be seeing an ice age and sea levels dropping by now.

Meanwhile, you really do tend to argue without documentation.

[Benedictine_09876]

5. Awesome

Y'all need to go get one of these www.windstrument.com - apparently they float. And they can power your boat. Or whatever else you need powered.

Seriously though- they look awesome.