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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (10370)3/14/2007 3:59:17 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
100 years = 30cm = up to my knees. I think I should be able to walk faster uphill than the tide rises [even as age overtakes me and I'm reduced to a walking stick]. <Sea levels, rising at 1 millimetre a year before the industrial revolution, are now rising by 3 millimetres a year because of a combination of global warming, polar ice-melting and long natural cycles of sea level change. >

Looks like sea level rise is nothing to worry about, though I advise moving uphill NOW because when a tsunami hits, people will NOT be worried about 30cm in 100 years. They'll be worried about 30 metres right NOW.

Forget about Global Warming sea level rise which is trivial and very uncertain [being based on nothing but a flimsy theory which I think is back to front] and worry about bolide impact which is not a theory, it's a certitude. The only question is when. There is nothing to say that tomorrow will not see the big news. Best to deal with imminent reality than theoretical possibilities which even if true, are trivial.

My bet is sea level fall, and quickly, as reglaciation takes over.

You only need to see the eons-long depletion of atmospheric CO2 and arrival of ice age to see that we are in trouble.

If we can get back to 1000 ppm, we might be out of the woods, in the short term, but I don't fancy our chances of getting to that level. There is too much working against us replenishing the atmosphere with CO2.

Mqurice
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