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March 24th 2006 at 11:57 am in According to an article in The Star, two studies yesterday warned, that
Global warming of only a couple of degrees Celsius projected by the end of this century is enough to trigger widespread melting of the massive Greenland ice cap and the partial collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets.
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The findings are a stunning about-face from previous expert forecasts that such massive melting would take millennia to kick in, even with rising global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.This new research, based on a comprehensive look at global warming in the distant past, says melting the two icy domains could eventually raise sea level worldwide by as much as five metres, enough to flood low-lying regions like the Netherlands and most Pacific atolls, as well push half a billion people inland.
Pretty serious indeed. Most people seem happy enough to downplay the dangers that all the melting ice will cause the density of salt lowers significantly in sea-water. This causes all kinds of warm- and cold- water flows to stop, basically halting the transport of warmer water to the European continent. As I read when I logged-in to a machine yesterday: Some people prefer certainty over truth.
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