armageddon

ARMAGEDDON There is a battle within each of us between good and evil. To-day we live in a world where we are distroying our planet. Unless we reform our ways we are heading for extinction. It has happened in the past where over the last 500,000,000 year life has suffered 5 great extinctions. There is every reason to believe that we are now well into the sixth extinction and this time humans may be included.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

CLIMATE CHANGE --- Sea Level Change





Source WIKIPEDIA

Figure 1 Shows the extent of the glacial and sea ice at the last ice age maximum.

Figure 2 Shows the change in sea level over the last 25,000 years.
It is noted that the last great melting took 10,000 years and the sea level rose about 100 meters on average. That is 10 meters per 1000 years or one meter per 100 years.

Figure 3. shows the current melting rate at about about 0.2 meters per 100 years

Looking forward Al Gore is predicting a possible 10 meter rise perhaps in the century.

We reason as follows the ice to be melted is far less than 25,000 years ago.
The moderating force is the 3,000 meter ice caps in Antartica and to a lesser extent Greenland. We see the worst case forcast of increasing temperature similar to the last melting would produce at a rate of about one half of the last melt say 0.5 meters per century.

This is far less than the Gore figure and quite managable over time.