More IDIOTS, according to the cykoe6, Warchild ( change your location to Vancouver, BC ...) and other so called successfull business people ...
Sea level could rise by 150cm, US scientists warn
A breaking ice shelf in Antarctica ... many scientists fear the world is close to a tipping point. Jim Elliott/British Antarctic Survey/AP
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Sea level rise due to global warming will "substantially exceed" official UN projections and could top 150cm by the end of the century, according to a report from the US Geological Survey on the risks of abrupt climate change. Such a rise would be catastrophic, seeing hundreds of millions of people affected by flooding.
Many scientists now fear the warming world is on the verge of "tipping points", in which climate change and its effects accelerate rapidly. The science is evolving quickly and the new report updates the most recent findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was released in 2007.
Some observers have called for an update of the science before the UN talks on a global deal on greenhouse gases emissions reach their finale in December 2009. The US report considers four scenarios for abrupt change, and delivers bad news on two.
On sea level, the report found models used by the IPCC in 2007 do not take into account recent information on how fast glaciers slide into the oceans, particularly from Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheets. The report says the south western states of the US will enter a "permanent drought state".
rest of articles here for the non-nayers
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Is it nature only ? or man-made only ? or both ? Nobody can be 100% affirmative... but people should think about doing what has to be done in respect to diminishing the risk....
If my servers are up and running since a year, and if since a year I have been peeing in the tub ... well, even tough I cannot prove that peeing in the tub is directly responsible for the uptime, I will pee in the tub so I have all chances on my side....
And the GW problem is now more caused by China and India, so keep your USA flag in your top drawer for other occasions ...