Re: OT: Wild Weather

<bill.sloman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Global warming means more water gets eva****ated from the oceans, which
> in turns leads to wilder weather.

The biggest concern at the moment seems to be a possible large and sudden
rise in sea level due to _melting_ at the poles. The resulting rise in sea
level could mean some prime real estate is under water within 80 years.
Your
children better watch out where they buy a house or expect to see it's
value
fall.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/03/020329072043.htm

Quote: The West Antarctic ice sheet is thought to be potentially unstable,
and if it collapsed sea levels around the world would rise almost 20 feet.
The melting of the larger and more stable East Antarctic ice sheet would
raise Earth's sea levels another 200 feet.

Think it won't happen?

In January 1995 around 2000 square kilometers of the Larsen Ice sheet
broke
up....

http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/larsen1995/

"Two dramatic events occurred in the Larsen Ice Shelf in late January of
1995. A large iceberg (70 km by 25 km) calved from the shelf between Jason
Peninsula and Robertson Island (see map), and the northernmost part of the
shelf, north of Seal Nunataks, disintegrated. The large iceberg calving
event received the most notice in popular media coverage but such events
are
part of the normal mass balance cycle for ice shelves. The northern
disintegration, on the other hand, occurred in an unprecedented manner, by
the sudden break-up of a region approximately 2000 km2 into many small
icebergs (typically 1 to 2 km or smaller). It is the more likely of the
two
events to be related to climate change."