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Originally Posted by aerohead
Correct me if I'm wrong,but the glaciologists have said that if all mountain glaciers,Arctic ice,Greenland,and Antarctica melt,we're looking at 80-meters (270-feet) sea-level rise.Some believe it can't last a century with the feedbacks underway.So buckle up and get your snorkel ready!  |
... and at a foot of rise per century, that would take much longer than civilized humans have existed to happen (27,000 years). We're on target for about a foot of sea-level rise over 100 years, or about 1/8th inch per year.
Not good, but people are capable of adapting to 1/8th inch per year.
As a tangent thought, has anyone ever contemplated that it's the year 2019, which is a very small number? Considering geologic and cosmic time, 4000 or so years of civilization is an instant. We very well might be living much closer to the beginning of history than the end of it.