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To: HPilot who wrote (12301)	12/7/2007 4:24:38 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

If sea level rises, it rises, but there's nothing we can do about it except move to higher ground. Climate report: Expect 1,000-year sea-level rise Draft U.N. document lowers increase this century, but projects beyond 2100 Reuters updated 11:55 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 25, 2007 msnbc.msn.com OSLO, Norway - World sea levels might not rise as much this century as projected earlier, but they could rise nearly three feet next century and will keep rising for more than 1,000 years even if governments manage to reduce carbon emissions, a draft United Nations climate report says. The chairman of the upcoming U.N. report said he hoped the findings would shock governments into action. “I hope this report will shock people, governments into taking more serious action as you really can’t get a more authentic and a more credible piece of scientific work,” Rajendra Pachauri told Reuters. He did not elaborate on what was in the report, but scientific sources said the study also says that dust from volcanic eruptions and air pollution seems to have braked warming in recent decades by reflecting sunlight back into space. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will publish its first chapter from the report, the most complete overview of climate change science, in Paris on Feb. 2 after a final review. Written by 600 scientists, and reviewed by another 600, the first chapter will guide policymakers combating global warming. The draft projects more droughts, rains, shrinking Arctic ice and glaciers and rising sea levels, cautioning that the effects of a buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will last far beyond this century. “Twenty-first century anthropogenic (human) carbon dioxide emissions will contribute to warming and sea level rise for more than a millennium, due to the timescales required for removal of this gas,” the sources quoted the report as saying. Temperature scenarios As reported earlier, the draft projects temperatures will rise by 3.6 to 8.1 Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels with a “best estimate” of a 5.4 F rise, assuming carbon dioxide levels are stabilized at about 45 percent above current levels. That is a narrower range than the 2.5-10.4 F projected in the previous IPCC report in 2001, which did not say which end of the band was most likely. The European Union says any temperature rise above 3.6 F will cause “dangerous” changes. And the draft report itself notes that sea levels were probably 13 to 19.5 feet higher when temperatures were just 5.4 F higher than the present in a period between ice ages 125,000 years ago. msnbc.msn.com * * *

To: HPilot who wrote (12301)	12/7/2007 5:35:56 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

"but he said 20 feet which was still a gross exaggeration." That may well be, and that's all fine and well is so --- BUT IT WASN'T THE TOPIC UNDER DISCUSSION! (Gore... nor anything he ever said, was not the topic of the post. LOL!) Anytime someone wants to change the topic, Hugh, that's OK with me --- all they gotta do is mention that they want to talk about something else. But it's more then a bit silly to drag in some Red Herring that has no connection to the topic... and then pretend that it's on-point, or has anything to do with the original topic, when in fact it's irrelevant and diversionary... (not to mention actually strengthening, not weakening the case). :-)