Climate Change Hits Home: Florida's Rising Sea Levels

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In this climate change story, scientific evidence of rising sea levels predicts the loss of the southern end of Florida by the close of the century. Other major U.S. cities like New York and Boston are also at risk of permanent flooding as a result of our planet's warming climate.

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[IWantDemocracyNow]

you are right, the sky isn't falling.... but the climate is changing. and it's spelling trouble .

[jcrc65]

Climategate.....ja ja ja.....ignore the hacker...pay your carbon offsets and Al Gore wil force the scientist to stabilized the thermometer!

[vbirdieb]

How, would the water get cooler? The glass sat there for several hours, and by the next day was the same (not much evaporation occured). The displacement equals it's expansion. So again, 10% of land mass covered by ice can't equal 70 meters of rising sea levels.

[FromBoomTown]

But in that experiment the water would get cooler, wouldn't it? It would not expand, but there will be more water than before. I thought temperature moves from one thing to another. And 70 percent of the EArth is water. I can see low lying areas and coastal areas being affected if trillions of gallons expand.

[vbirdieb]

I don't think it will equal 70 meters of rising sea level. I conducted a little experiment, I put some water in a glass marked it, then put some ice in and marked where the water was again. After the ice had melted I, expected the water level to be lower but it was exactly where it was with ice. So what that tells me is that the only melting ice that can affect sea levels is the ice on land and only 10%of land is covered with ice. It would take some figuring but I can't see 70 meters.

[vbirdieb]

Careful how you label people. I don't like polution, and recyling is good. But look closer and you'll see a scam going on. It's all about power to control everything they can, but right now they got you asking for it. As long as they need you everything is great, after that ???? Depopulation??? Check out the Georgia guide stones, scary, especially if you end up being one of the useless eaters. Oh and forget about being self-sufficiant got to pay taxes. Hellsadvocate, some name.

[FromBoomTown]

Climate change this time has nothing to do with ice age cycles or anything. It's nothing except AGW.

[FromBoomTown]

I though that was warm water expansion that causes sea level rise. That's a lot of water expanding.

[th3dig1tal0n3]

If is Climategate then we're lucky.

If it is not, someone will have to put ice on the thermometer, and to suck up the excess water, and to calm down the hurricanes, and to water expanding deserts. Looks like there is lot to do.

I's rather stick to Climategate. Looks like les job to me.

[vbirdieb]

O.K. but it only covers 10% of the earth's land mass. There's alot less freshwater to sea, so even if glaciers are equal to 75% of freshwater. How does that equate to sea levels rising 70 meters? Besides the fact that there has been some fudging going on, and it took hackers to bring it to light. Greenland wasn't always covered with ice neither. It's a cycle, it might cause problems it might not but it can't be stopped.

[Hellsadvocate]

These people (repubs) who think Al Gore is lying and saying we don't need to do anything about our environment are ignorant. Do-nothing attitudes aren't exactly the best way to face trouble.

[BlueEagle8]

Who cares. Seriously, what if we lived during the Ice Age? Would be going crazy trying to figure out how to heat up the Earth? Sea levels rise, sea levels fall. That's just nature doing its thing.