Now comes the report of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, an organization which, as its name implies, monitors and assesses the impact of climate on the Arctic Ocean, Greenland and other far north entities.Those scientists say the ice of the Greenland ice cap is melting far faster than scientists originally predicted; so fast, in fact, that global sea levels could rise by as much as 5 feet by the end of this century.
Such an increase might not impact Wisconsin too badly but it could turn Florida into the lost land of Atlantis.
At current rates of sea level rise in Florida, it will take almost a thousand years to rise five feet.
Looks like a good cause to throw a few bucks at (if you can)….
The surfacestations.org paper – accepted
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Anthony Watts
After months of work, I’m pleased to announce that the paper that I have jointly written with several co-authors, including Dr. Roger Pielke Senior (who acted in the capacity as corresponding author) has run the peer review gauntlet and has been accepted.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/08/the-surfacestations-org-paper-accepted/#more-39532
It’s amazing what a team of people will say to keep the funding coming.
Amino,
I don’t think Mike the denier wrote his paper to get more funding. Though Pilke is a climate scientist and they are all rather suspicious characters.
You mean accurate and authentic data?
Science!! going going gone! It’s now a free for all.
100 years=6 inches ?
I believe that to be the best estimate barring the use of nuclear weapons on Greenland and Antarctica.
“At current rates of sea level rise in Florida, it will take almost a thousand years to rise five feet. ”
Well, I live in Florida near Clearwater beach, and I can assure you that sea level yesterday at that location rose 1.5 feet in 6 hours. That comes to 6 feet in one day!
We’re doomed! Doooooommmmmmmed!
Doooooommmmmmmed!
Well, if not by the end of this century, maybe by the end of the next one. By that time, super duper exponential warming will have had plenty of time to kick in, dude!
Let’s see. . .
Area of world’s oceans = 361 million square kilometres (assuming wikipedia is right)
Area of world’s oceans = 1.71 million square kilometres (ditto)
Do some simple arithmetic . . .
For the ocean to rise 5 feet the entire Greenland ice sheet would have to subside by
(361/1.7) * 5 feet = 1062 feet
All in 89 years.
More simple arithmetic . . .
1062/89 = 11.9 feet per year.
So, are the various surveys and satellites finding subsidence of this magnitude taking place?
Remember doom is always just ahead, in the future. It is a magical “tipping point”, and has all been shown by Climate Models. If we don’t act now, we will reach that tipping point, which is always some day in the future beyond our lifetime. See this is an easy game isn’t it.
Sorry, correction needed.
Let’s see. . .
Area of world’s oceans = 361 million square kilometres (assuming wikipedia is right)
Area of Greenland ice sheet = 1.71 million square kilometres (ditto)
Do some simple arithmetic . . .
For the ocean to rise 5 feet the entire Greenland ice sheet would have to subside by
(361/1.7) * 5 feet = 1062 feet
All in 89 years.
More simple arithmetic . . .
1062/89 = 11.9 feet per year.
So, are the various surveys and satellites finding subsidence of this magnitude taking place?
J calvert,
unfortunately Greenland does not manage to drain it’s melted ice into all the oceans. The other sources are thermic expansion, other glaciers, and Antarctic land ice melt. (steve will of course latch onto the lack of Antarctic land ice melt here as is his right)
and as Steve and other keep failing to understand for some reason, it is not projected to be a linear increase.
You realize that the non-linear argument requires even more ridiculous rise rates in the future.
Steve,
yes, of course. Certainly sometime in the fairly near future there will have to be a significant increase in order to have any credibility.