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- Spinalslap, on 03/04/2009, -3/+48Or...sea levels could rise by 3cm !!!
Quote "The level of the whole Mediterranean will rise by between 3cm and 61cm* on average"
Gotta love the sensational title!!! - inactive, on 03/04/2009, -2/+37Forgot a slightly important word in the headline it is "could"
medditerainian "could" also turn in to chicken soup if you had enough chickens. - diggit83, on 03/04/2009, -2/+35Dumb asses will still buy up condos and houses in New Orleans, then complain about the government not helping them when a ***** storm comes.
DONT LIVE BELOW SEALEVEL, ITS NOT THAT ***** HARD, THE COUNTRY IS HUGE - brokenex, on 03/04/2009, -1/+30So its a bad idea to invest in Venician real estate?
- gerrylazlo, on 03/04/2009, -3/+32Title is retarded.
- ftx437, on 03/04/2009, -20/+42Buried for misleading title and the fact they are using using global models from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- iamthearm, on 03/04/2009, -4/+19Buried. The Digg title makes is sound like the sea levels have already risen. Fear tatic.
- waterboy1628, on 03/04/2009, -2/+17sucks for Venice, or should I say, Atlantis! muahhahahaha
- divinediva, on 03/04/2009, -3/+16The related results are not very reliable.
- Meor, on 03/04/2009, -7/+20If you write a computer model that tells you the sea level will rise if you raise the temperature, it will tell you the sea level will rise if you raise the temperature.
This specific instance is not scientific. Stop muddying actual research with quack numbers. - offrdbandit, on 03/04/2009, -1/+14*****. My house is only 2cm above sea level!.
- loki49152, on 03/04/2009, -11/+21The IPCC isn't a scientific body. It's a political entity that was established specifically to promote the Man-Made Global Warming message.
Not to investigate it. Not to determine if it's true or false. Just to promote the pre-chosen message, by any available means, regardless of the actual science. - MistrBrownstone, on 03/04/2009, -1/+10So they collected no data, and used models developed by someone else; and their "study" gets published in a journal?
FTA: "The level of the whole Mediterranean will rise by between 3cm and 61cm* on average as a result of the effects of warming,"
Thanks for narrowing that down. Great work, way to tell us nothing. - bbardlbradd, on 03/04/2009, -0/+8It has been for a while now, yes.
- inactive, on 03/04/2009, -4/+12let's be clear about a bit, it's about "future scenarios", not the present.
i'm next to the mediterranean sea right now and I assure you, i'm not typing under water. - Pseudorious, on 03/04/2009, -2/+10So, if I study elevation maps, I can buy the great-grandkids some kick-ass waterfront property?
- banshee90, on 03/04/2009, -0/+8to which is based on only a fraction of the earth history and a vast amount of climate history is still unknown
- xsecretfiles, on 03/04/2009, -2/+9Everybody grab a bucket. We NEED to start draining it NOW!
- Daxx22, on 03/04/2009, -1/+8Hey Noah, better start building.
- KevenM, on 03/04/2009, -2/+9That what you get when your "science" is really just a theory based on a model which is based on a theory which is based on a model...
- rtshinn, on 03/04/2009, -3/+9Uh, wouldn't all of the Oceans in the entire world have to go up by 2 feet in order for this to happen? They are connected, ya know even if only thorugh the Strait of Gilbraltar.
- fury420, on 03/04/2009, -0/+6last time i looked, we live on a giant sphere with its own gravity, spinning in space.
if the sea level rises 2ft in the Mediterranean the sea level would be rising everywhere to some extent, including along the USA's maritime borders - anexanhume, on 03/04/2009, -1/+7Everyone knows it's the stupid fish who won't stop pooping in our seas and oceans.
- uberchaoslord, on 03/04/2009, -4/+9Thats the best summary of the IPCC I've ever heard.
- Bmarofsky, on 03/04/2009, -2/+7Since there is really only one ocean, won't they all go up the same amount?
EDIT: Ya what he^^ said. - impei, on 03/04/2009, -1/+6So about the same as it rose in the last 150 years. Yet we survived.
- Scarblac, on 03/04/2009, -2/+7No, because the main reason for ocean level rise is thermal expansion, and that depends on things like water temperature, depth and salinity. Which isn't the same everywhere.
- DamnMan, on 03/04/2009, -2/+7Oh good, I was wondering how the media was going to tell me world ends today... This time we are back to it ending with Kevin Costner on a boat drinking his own pee. Awesome.
- lisafeel, on 03/04/2009, -6/+10everything goes according to plan..
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/sealevel - sharifton, on 03/04/2009, -1/+5Okay. Think about it. This is a prediction 90 years from now. Does anyone have any idea what earth will be like 90 years from now? Imagine if we were in 1920 and someone told you that the earth will be over run with horse poop because cars will never take off and the rise in population will raise horse populations and we will be swimming in poop. this is the same thing. It is ridiculous to predict what will happen 90 years from now. And weather and climate are a non linear chaotic system that always changes, theses 'predictions' are completely out of line. For all we know the sea could evaporate by then by aliens.
just sayin. - pw378, on 03/04/2009, -1/+5Then stay at home, lock the doors, remove all electrical power (fire hazard) and only eat food grown in your own garden...
I prefer to live. - evanfrey, on 03/04/2009, -1/+4or not
- Killerfilm, on 03/04/2009, -0/+3I'm thinking of going with Petoria
- bpwned, on 03/04/2009, -2/+5As long as people don't know how science is done, they'll keep believing in conspiracy theories and other weird stuff. Whether it's not accepting Evolution or denying climate change...
Hint: Scientists "do" science. Then they write papers about what they've done and publish them. Other scientists review them, judge them, and if they're good, use them as a basis to make more science. Repeat while (unansweredQuestionsExist && sufficientFunding). - Killerfilm, on 03/04/2009, -1/+4If this graph is correct, then where I live will be international waters! I'm starting my own country...anyone want to join?
- bogdon6, on 03/04/2009, -1/+4It's a good thing that these global climate models are overestimating the rate of warming and that there hasn't seen warming since at least 2001.
- Travelsonic, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2Public, private, the aircraft manufacturers still rely on the same companies to manufacture the engines (big factor in how much gas is guzzled).
- CoD4, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2sam kinison is that you?
- Spinalslap, on 03/04/2009, -1/+3HAHA, awesome!!
- UselessTrivia, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2I'll take your word on the temperature density thing, though I'm dubious that it changes enough that a degree Celsius or two makes 2 feet of difference, but I disagree that the weight of water can't deform the earth's crust.
You're talking about millions of tons pushing down on slab of rock that floats on top of a ball of molten liquid. If you remove a few million tons from one spot on the earth's crust, it's going to start floating a little higher.
I don't know whether it equals out but I guarantee there WILL be a change. - inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2I see plans within plans...
- UselessTrivia, on 03/04/2009, -2/+4Here's what I don't get about "sea level rising" type stuff.
It's being caused by melting ice right? But if I have an ice cube in a glass of water, when it melts the water level goes down, not up. So if glaciers and icebergs are floating in the water, how does them melting cause a change in the water level?
If the ice is on land and it's melting into the ocean, there will be less weight pressing down on the earth's crust, causing it to rise slightly, which will alter the shape of the sea floor somewhat. I'm no expert, but wouldn't that sort of even itself out?
The only reason I can think of why the ocean level would rise would be if the ocean's volume was directly sensitive to temperature increases, so that 71 degree water took up less volume than 73 degree water, but 2 feet worldwide is a pretty huge volume increase. - richid, on 03/04/2009, -6/+8@loki49152
You are correct in saying that the IPCC is not a scientific body but are egregiously disingenuous in the rest of your comment. The IPCC's primary responsibility is to aggregate and distill the voluminous amount of data being generated by a multitude of scientific research organizations on the impacts of human-induced climate change. Every so often they produce a lengthy report that summarizes their investigations into the previously mentioned data.
The actual science you mention is carried out by any number of scientific bodies; NAS, AAAS, NOAA you name it. Give even a cursory look and you'll discover that these organizations and many others support the notion of anthropogenic climate change. While there are dissenters, I think you will find that the majority are in agreement.
To imply that the IPCC and the largest and most respected scientific bodies are all part of a massive global conspiracy is flat out ludicrous. - ozydingo, on 03/04/2009, -1/+3No. Good example is seen across the Panama Canal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal#Water_is ...
- Jacare, on 03/04/2009, -0/+23cm is not a significant increase, the tide is atleast 20-30x that in most areas of the world. wind and rain can increase local sea levels by more than 3cm. most of you people have no idea what the tide even is heres an example, the daily tidal fluctuation in British Columbia(Canada) ranges from about two meters in the south to over seven on the North Coast. 7meters! 700cm - 23 feet!
http://www.britishcolumbia.com/wildlife/?id=25 - BushidoReverend, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2Depends.
What will you call it? - Wargasmic, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2You really think we will last a thousand more years?
- minnecrapolis, on 03/04/2009, -0/+2pic or it happened!
- xGORDOx, on 03/04/2009, -2/+4Hasn't the IPCC been completely discredited? By like thousands of scientists?
- Killerfilm, on 03/05/2009, -0/+2Clearly I will be benevolent dictator of Petoria
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