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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Where is sea level rise effecting millions of people?
Again, all this ice is melting and the sea level rise isn't even measurable. So either the ice isn't melting or some other unknown mechanism is in play.
People who already live below sea level don't count, on account of its a really bad idea overall and throughout human history anything man made holding back sea water is at the seas mercy and is going to fail. It's only a matter of time.
To believe otherwise is delusional.
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From Jeff Goodell,May,2017:
*Half the world's population lives within 50-miles of coastline.
*IPCC predicted from,less than 1-foot,to 3.2-feet sea-level rise by 2100.
*The Twaites Glacier is a 'threshold system.'
*The Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing 'marine ice sheet instability'.
*If the ice sheets go,the glaciers will go,and estimates run from 10-feet,to 16-feet of 'catastrophic' sea-level rise.
*Major population centers impacted will be:
-Miami,Fort Lauderdale,Tampa,Mar-a-lago,Boston,San Francisco,below the 101 Freeway,Sacramento,Galveston,Norfolk,New Orleans,Washington.D.C.,Shanghai,Bangkok,Jakarta,L agos,London,Nile Delta,Egypt,Bangladesh,Marshall Islands,Maldives.
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*As of 2004,the average temp. increase at the W.Antarctic Peninsula since 1950 was:
Winter,8.8-degrees F
Annual,4.5-degrees F
*As of 2015,calving events are doubling over 7-years.
*As of June,2018,Antarctica is melting twice as fast as predicted.
*Arctic is melting twice as fast.............................................. ..
*Greenland is melting twice as fast.........................................
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*Because of wind and ocean currents,sea-level rise is not distributed uniformly,so some areas see greater water column height than others.
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*Sea-level rise is measurable.
*It's under constant satellite monitoring.
Last night PBS reported from Miami.They are already experiencing flooding from regular rain events.