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To: TimF who wrote (315584)	12/14/2006 12:05:55 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1583555

"your most likely benign scenarios are either likely (in the time scale you mention of a century or so) or benign." Whether or not there will be significant melting in a century is a tough call. There are some signs that the ice flows in both Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating. Because there is increased surface temperature, there is also increased precipitation in the form of snow. So in some areas, the ice is actually getting thicker. But this could increase the ice velocity in the flows. But there is concern over something that has greater influence than rising sea level, the weakening of the Global Conveyor. guardian.co.uk The implications of that out weigh any potential increase in sea level.