pedalling_faster wrote:wouldn't worry about water expanding as it gets warmer. either way, the citizens of Vanuatu (spelling ?) will need to be accepted as environmental refugees by new zealand - they have already applied because their island is well, not exactly sinking, but, close enough.
still would like to see a re-spin on the "sea level rising" articles.
The largest contributions to sea level rise so far are estimated to have come from thermal expansion, with the melting of mountain glaciers and icecaps being of second order.
SOMEONE ELSE BUT NOT BACKSTOIP!! HE WOULD NEVER WRITE THIS! wrote: How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree. That will be warmer than it has been for half a million years, and many things could become unstoppable. If we are to stop that, we cannot wait for new technologies like capturing emissions from burning coal. We have to act with what we have. This decade, that means focusing on energy efficiency and renewable sources of energy that do not burn carbon. We don't have much time left.
Glaciers in the Alps may have lost up to a tenth of their volume in the hot 2003 summer alone, researchers at Zurich university have said, and the ice now only occupies between half and a third of its volume in 1850.
ohanian wrote:Really? I was under the impression that global warming causes ice age in Europe.
ohanian wrote:Really? I was under the impression that global warming causes ice age in Europe.
Without that warm water circulating into the North Atlantic, the winter climate of Europe could be far colder.
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