SEA LEVEL RISING --- No Great Flooding in Sight
Source of Charts: Wikipedia
Figure One --- 25,000 years ago at the peak of the last ice age all of the Arctic Ocean and much of the nearby land was covered by ice thousands of feet thick.Now the only sizable ice mass left is Greenland.
Figure Two --- The last big melt took 10,000 years at a rate of sea level rise of 1.0 meter per century.
Figure Three --- Over the last century sea level has risen 0.2 meters.
MANY SCREAMING ALARMISTS ARE WARNING OF SEA LEVEL RISES OF TEN TO TWENTY FEET IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. THE RECENT IPCC REPORT HAS A MUCH LOWER ESTIMATE OF 0.5 METERS OR LESS. It is easy to see why. There is far less ice here now when compared to the last big melt.
MANY SCREAMING ALARMISTS ARE WARNING OF SEA LEVEL RISES OF TEN TO TWENTY FEET IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. THE RECENT IPCC REPORT HAS A MUCH LOWER ESTIMATE OF 0.5 METERS OR LESS. It is easy to see why. There is far less ice here now when compared to the last big melt.
The IPCC report notes, that despite melting around its fringes Antarctica is still gaining mass and will not be a big contributor to sea level rise in the foreseeable future.
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