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May 22, 2005
The latest news on the Greenland ice sheet
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
A recent video clip from the BBC provides a quite graphic illustration of the impact of global warming. Ice bergs break away from the Greenland ice sheet all the time and this has never been a problem. In the last 5-10 years, however, the ice has begun to melt at an accelerating rate as temperatures have risen. If this trend continues, and the entire ice sheet disappears, then it is estimated that sea levels will rise by 7 metres. Some projections of climate change (at the upper end of estimates) suggest that this could happen as soon as 2050. The impact of a rise in sea level of this magnitude would be cataclysmic, affecting millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas. Thank goodness we have the Bush administration carefully monitoring the situation.
Posted by jeremy at May 22, 2005 10:44 PM
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So you have something to thank the Bush administration for now, huh?
Posted by: DD at May 27, 2005 12:35 AM
Some projections ?
You mean computer simulations based on a model.
E.g The IPCC used a computer model to predict future global warming based on past data. The only problem was that when you fed 10,000 samples of RANDOM data into it, it predicted massive global warming in 99.99% of simulations.
Amazing how meteorologists can't even predict next weeks weather within reasonable limits, isn't it.
Posted by: Jono at June 3, 2005 02:34 PM
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