[Rooters] Rising seas spurred by climate change could threaten 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, a new study says, with Miami, New Orleans and Virginia Beach among those most severely affected, researchers reported in the journal Climate Change Letters.Where else would it be reported
Lancet?
| Ouch. Remember when comparison to Lancet was praise... like the New York Times? |
Where they know all about the oceans. Or 'hot', anyways.
Sea level rise is expected as a consequence of continuing climate change, which is spurred by human activities including
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated global average temperature will rise by 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C) by 2100. However, Weiss and his colleagues put the warming at more like 8 degrees F (4.4 degrees C).
The UN scenario wasn't scary enough
Weiss said the lesser degree of warming projected by the IPCC reflects a moderate scenario. The study's higher temperature estimate is based on the idea that greenhouse emissions will continue along the current trajectory through the century.
"There aren't any national or international agreements yet on actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions and so that's what we get at when we say 8 degrees Fahrenheit," Weiss said.
In the centuries after 2100, he said, sea levels could rise as much as 6 yards (meters), based on the melting of giant ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica.
There are beaches in California 100 meters (300ft.) above the water right now. I saw pictures in a geology book. That's from the pre-human man-made global warming period.