I googled on "islands losing land from global warming" and things of that nature. ALL I came up with was speculation shit about how bad it was going to be! Apparently no islands have lost any land. It's all speculation and computer models that are contrived trashy stuff... I think we've already passed the date that Al Gore stated as the time when we would be destroyed by bad weather or something? Our [self]esteemed president Obama was speaking about terrorism in Egypt a few weeks ago and said that Climate Change is a bigger threat than terrorism! The Egyptian newscasters were questioning his sanity right there on the air. We used to wonder what country he was born in now it's more like what planet...
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...pacific-to-world-at-paris-climate-talks#img-1 This 2008 photo shows a cemetery on the shoreline in Majuro Atoll being flooded from high tides and ocean surges in the low-lying Marshall Islands. Photograph: Giff Johnson/AFP/Getty Images High tide completely surrounds the village of Eita. If the seas continue to rise at the current rate, it won’t be long before the villagers will have to relocate. Many already have Marshall Islanders have also experienced the hardships of inundations. Jondrick Joash, 54, and her granddaughters Nola and Judy live in their half demolished house in Utidrikan, on the capital atoll Majuro. The front rooms and kitchen were washed away in February 2014, leaving just the front door, one tiny bedroom and a narrow strip of concrete that falls away to the eroded shore below. Eleven people live in the cramped ruin
Q http://suprememastertv.com/sea-level-rise/?wr_id=631 Submerged Islands As the climate continues to warm, entire islands are sinking below rising waters caused from melting glaciers. Mr. Achim Steiner - United Nation’s Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director - Indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want to disappear. Therefore there is no question that we have to act. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way. CLIMATE REFUGEES: 25 million people uprooted in 2007 President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati: We have whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century and now they have to be relocated, and where they’ve being living for the last few decades is no longer there. It has been eroded. AT LEAST 18 ISLANDS SUBMERGED AROUND THE WORLD: • Lohachara, India – 10,000 residents • Bedford, Kabasgadi and Suparibhanga islands near India – 6,000 families • Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, USA – 13 islands • Kiribati – 3 atolls • Half of Bangladesh’s Bhola Island permanently flooded – 500,000 Paul Tobasi – Government Representative of the Carteret Islands – It’s not their wish to go, but because of the situation; it’s forcing them to move. ISLANDS SINKING OR AT RISK FROM RISING SEA LEVELS (over 40 nations): Tuvalu – 12,000 residents with no more fresh drinking water and vegetable plots have washed away Ghoramara near India – 2/3 submerged as of 2006 with 7,000 residents already relocated Neighboring island of Sagar – 250,000 residents also threatened Some 50 other islands jeopardized in the India-Bangladesh Sundarbans, with a population of 2 million Kutubdia in southeastern Bangladesh lost over 200,000 residents, with remaining 150,000 likely soon to depart Maldives – 369,000 residents in the Indian Ocean, whose president wants to relocate the entire country Marshall Islands – 60,000 residents Kiribati – 107,800 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging Tonga – 116,900 residents Vanuatu – 212,000 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated and coastal villages relocated Solomon Islands – 566,800 residents Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea – 2,500 residents whose land no longer supports agriculture Shishmaref in Alaska, USA – 600 residents Kivalini in Alaska, USA – 400 residents Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia Dubai – 1.2 million residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk There may be more islands, either uninhabited and/or not reported, that have submerged or are sinking due to climate change. President Tong of the Island Nation of Kiribati: We may be at the point of no return; our small low lying island will be submerged. It’s an issue of human survival.If the world community, the different countries don’t kick the Carbon habits, there will be other countries next on the line. Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai with Supreme Master Television Los Angeles, California, USA – July 31, 2008 Supreme Master Ching Hai : According to the scientists, there could be more than just one disaster. Rising sea level is not the only worrying event, disease will also rise. They already do so in some parts of the world. Unless people change to a more benevolent lifestyle that is respecting all lives, then we will beget life and our lives be spared. And nature will restore the balance and repair all damages. I wish to see that day soon, in my lifetime. The more vegetarian people join the circle, the more chance we have to save the planet. REFERENCE (original numbers before rounding) Maldives – 369,031 residents, southwest of India Marshall Islands – 60,000 residents Kiribati – 107,817 residents, approximately 30 islands submerging Tonga – 116,921 residents Vanuatu – 211,971 residents, some of whom have already been evacuated Solomon Islands – 566,842 residents Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea – 2,500 residents Shishmaref in Alaska, USA – 600 residents Kivalini in Alaska, USA – 400 residents Over 2,000 other islands in Indonesia (population not known) Dubai – 1,241,000 residents in the United Arab Emirates considered at risk Rajendra Pachauri : There is a grim outcome that the world would have to face, in terms of sea level rise due to thermal expansion alone, and our estimate of this level of increasing sea (level) is 0.4 to 1.4 meters due to thermal expansion alone, and if you add to this the amount of water that would be released and would add to sea level rise on the account of melting of the ice bodies then we already committed the world to a threat, which is going to affect a large number of small island states, low line coast areas across the world that clearly, gives us an absolute warning that we have no time to lose at all and we have to ensure that we start reducing emission of green house gases, as quickly as possible. President Tong of Kiribati: I take every opportunity to express our position to explain our situation, as the minister has explained the Kiribati is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Along with our other pacific island relations, of a similar geographical structure and also other countries in other different oceans in another parts of the world which have the same structure that we have. The Kiribati’s highest point in our Island is about average is about 2 meters above sea level. I think we are, we might be beyond redemption, we may be at the point of no return, where the emission in the atmosphere will carry on with the momentum, will carry on to contribute to climate change, to sea level rise to the extend that in time, our small low lying island will be submerged. Because one has to feel the reality of the situation, and in order to feel the reality of the situation you have got to be there when the tides are coming over, and your are running around chasing your house goods, because the cases are floating all around, and you are trying to chase them after the waves have come. We have a whole communities, having to be relocated, villages which have been there over a decade maybe the century, and now they have to be relocated, where they’ve being living for the last few decades is no longer there. It has been eroded. According to the scenarios, the worst possible case scenario, Kiribati will be submerged, within the century. It’s not an issue of economic growth; it’s an issue of human survival. And I think this is the point, it’s about human survival. For some at this point in time. If the world community, the different countries don’t kick the Carbon habits, there will be other countries next on the line, we would have been long gone, but I think the next countries will be next on the line. Mr Achim Steiner (United Nation’s Under Secretary General & UN Environment Programme Executive Director): Therefore there is no question that we have to act, and yes maybe there are many countries who will not immediately face the prospects of Kiribati, but indeed there are many island nations who are doomed already now, condemned if you want by the end of this century, to disappear. And that is just the beginning of the visible impact of climate change. The invisible part, the bits that we have not necessarily understood that are happening around us are also on their way. Paul Tobasi – Government Representative of the Carteret Islands – It’s not their wish to go, but because the situation; it’s forcing them to move. Because today, there is also literally no food people can rely on. I think that is why most people around here are willing to go; to accept the resettlement. Louise (F): Wonderful. And we’re going to load up those websites, links to those websites of our own because I think that’s incredibly interesting and important. Supreme Master, we move on to environmental refugees. A recent report by the Aid Agency Tearfund, estimated there are currently 25 million environmental refugees, which is more than 22 million officially recognized political and economic refugees. And according to Dr. Janos Bogardi, Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, environmental deterioration currently displaces up to 10 million people per year. And there are expected to be 50 million environmental refugees by 2010. However, international conventions do not recognize environmental refugees unless such they do not have the same rights to financial and material support. What can we do to help the environmental refugees? Supreme Master Ching Hai : What can we do? They are refugees definitely. Ur. Because if we don’t have global warming then no one would be a climate refugee, would they? So no one would like to be a refugee in this case. So now, first we can help them to get back on their feet. The one who has meaning… mean and power, yes. We must consider their refugee status, legally, because they are refugees by all means. And by stopping global warming, we can help reduce this refugee issue. CLIMATE REFUGEES: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnB362707.html POZNAN, Poland, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The impact of climate change could uproot around six million people each year, half of them because of weather disasters like floods and storms, a top U.N. official said on Monday. The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) was making plans based on conservative estimates that global warming would force between 200 million and 250 million people from their homes by mid-century, said L. Craig Johnstone, the U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees. Johnstone said relief agencies would need to aid almost three million people a year displaced by sudden disasters. Another three million would likely migrate due to gradual changes like rising sea levels, and be more able to plan. UNHCR statistics show 67 million people were uprooted around the world at the end of 2007, 25 million of them because of natural disasters. REFUGEES: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200812070932.htm Speaking on the sidelines of the Dec 1-12 summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Warner said 24 million people around the world had become climate refugees already, according to an estimate made by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. SUNK Lohachara, India, home to some 10,000 people and one of the 102 Sundarban Islands, sank beneath the surface of the Bay of Bengal in 2006, & only 54 of the remaining 102 islands in the Sundarbans, home to 70,000 people, still remain hospitable. http://www.oceana.org/climate/impacts/rising-seas/ 13 islands in the Chesapeake bay, Maryland, USA have already disappeared with threat of more to come. http://www.nwf.org/sealevelrise/chesapeake.cfm Tuvalu (prediction it will be submerged in 50 years) The New Zealand government is already gradually taking in a quota of Tuvaluans each year and has assured Tuvalu that her 10,800 residents can find a home in New Zealand. http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php Cook Islands http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm Marshall Islands (where Majuro, one of the Marshall Islands has lost 20 % of its sea front) http://www.world-mysteries.com/newgw/sci_globalw2.htm Kirbati http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php Vanuatu http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php Fiji http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php Solomon Islands http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/asia/pacific.php Carteret Islands of Papua New Guinea (many parts are already uninhabitable) http://www.monstersandcritics.com/s...sland-nations_endangered_by_rising_sea_levels Ghoramara (7,000 residents have already been forced to leave as half of the island has been lost to the sea since 1978, and the biggest of the Ghoramara Islands, Sagar, which had been home to refugees from other islands, is at risk of being lost to the sea in 15 years. http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/2261 Indonesia is making plans for relocating people living on islands in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua, where the government expects about 2,000 islands to sink by 2030 or 2040. http://current.com/items/89477012/mass_relocation_planned_for_indonesian _islands_due_to_sea_level_rise.htm 40 Pacific Islands, part of the Alliance of Small Island States, at risk. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/13/1071125715575.html A three foot increase in sea levels would put South Padre Island, Texas, USA under water, with much of Galveston Island uninhabitable. http://www.txnp.org/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=4733 Shishmaref, an island inhabited by indigenous Alaskans in the US are at risk of losing their home of the last 4,000 years. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/22/eveningnews/main1926055.shtml Dubai at risk of being under water in 50 years http://www.arabianbusiness.com/504296 -dubai-will-be-underwater-in-50-years-alerts-branson UQ
Q http://www.adn.com/article/20140116/eroding-alaska-village-urges-congress-address-climate-change Eroding Alaska village urges Congress to address climate change Alex DeMarban January 16, 2014 A home in Shishmaref falls into the sea. Shishmaref is highly susceptible to coastal erosion. Courtesy Tony Weyiouanna Congress has the dirt on climate change -- literally. Five residents from the eroding village of Shishmaref in Northwest Alaska journeyed to Washington, D.C., this week to sound the alarm on climate change, while hauling a pineapple-sized chunk of frozen tundra to present to lawmakers. Related: Shishmaref residents escaped Bering Sea storm's wrath The delegation’s biggest meeting came on Tuesday during a roundtable gathering with the Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change created last year by Rep. Henry Waxman of California, a Democrat. Warming temperatures have had earth-shattering effects in the village of Shishmaref, a cluster of houses and buildings perched on a mile-wide barrier island some 600 miles northwest of Anchorage, residents said. With the Chukchi Sea gobbling away the edges of the island, Shishmaref’s 600 residents face the prospect of being washed away in the coming years, as do such other Alaska communities as Newtok and Kivalina. Speaking before the task force on Tuesday, Debra Hersrud, a high school senior in Shismaref, told panelists that in 2004 her family was forced to evacuate their home because stormy swells ripped away the earth, leaving the back of the house dangling over an ocean cliff. “It was scary. We had to immediately move all of our things out of the house and we went to go stay with my grandparents,” she said, according to her prepared text. Now she wonders how long until her village gets wiped off the map. “It seems unfair to be giving up my home and my culture for a problem that I don’t have the power to solve by myself. But that is why I’m here and why we are asking for your help -- to address the issue of climate change at a national level,” she said. The travelers from the Arctic told the four lawmakers who attended, including co-chairs Waxman and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., about the perils of climate change. Hunters have died falling through weak ice, a disappearing beach no longer supports subsistence digging for clams, and houses must be set on skids for periodic moves to higher ground. They told of warm weather that spoils food, of winter fishing that starts weeks behind schedule when the lagoon isn’t frozen for travel, and of storm-tossed waves that batter the village with increasing ferocity because the ice that once armored the coast forms late. The challenges have made it difficult to retain quality teachers and to receive support for things such as school improvements, because organizations are reluctant to spend money in a community with a short shelf life, residents said. Living on the front lines Waxman told the group they live on the front lines of climate change, and that their stories matter because many members of Congress remain climate-change deniers. In fact, lawmakers have introduced a bill that would eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to address carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, he said. “At a time when we urgently need to move forward with real solutions, House Republicans want to bury their heads in the sand and block progress,” he said. Alaska Rep. Don Young helped co-sponsor the bill, which also includes some Democratic co-sponsors in the House and Senate, said Young spokesman Matt Shuckerow. Young believes climate change can’t be pinned on humans alone, but is due to a variety of factors, Shuckerow said. On Wednesday, Young heard from the group. Where would they move? they wondered. Where would they get the gravel to build roads and foundations? Where would they get the money to build a new village at another site? The estimated cost of relocating Shishmaref was pegged at $180 million in 2005, or about $300,000 a person, according to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. With restraints on earmarks in Congress, getting federal funds for a move won’t be easy, Young told the group. “There may be ways to find the money, but he was very clear it’s going to be difficult without earmarks,” said Shuckerow. Money for Vietnam, but not Alaska During the week, the delegation also met with EPA chief Gina McCarthy, White House advisors, and Alaska Sens. Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski. After the meeting with the Shishmaref delegation, Murkowski sent a letter to President Barack Obama, “calling out his administration for its contradictory messages on rising sea levels,” according to a statement from her office. Shishmaref has been told no federal money is available to help them move, yet Secretary of State John Kerry announced last month that Vietnam will get $17 million from America to deal with climate change there, Murkowski wrote. “I ask that you put America first, especially the Alaskans who deal with this reality on a daily basis,” Murkowski wrote. “As the United States prepares to assume the Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, it is essential we are prepared to address adaption issues in our own Arctic communities.” The meeting with the task force was organized by the Climate Action Campaign, a nationwide coalition of groups focused on climate solutions. In front of the task force, Shishmaref residents said the road to the landfill was washed out this fall when an ocean tempest churned up the Western Alaska coast, ending trips to the dump until the ground froze. A few more big storms and the airstrip could be wiped out next, said former Mayor Stanley Tocktoo. When that happens, the village will be cut off from emergency flights. “No matter what your politics, you can’t ignore the facts. The facts are that our village is being impacted by climate change on a daily basis. And we need you to do something about it,” he said. As for the permafrost that had traveled from Alaska, it attended every meeting in a plastic tub, a slowly melting reminder meant to symbolize the change happening in the Arctic. UQ
" Desperate: Residents are now using every means possible to save their homes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...kan-village-disappears-underwater-decade.html Scroll down for video Worrying: It is predicted that within a decade the Alaskan village of Kivalina will be completely underwater - creating America's first climate change refugees " Q An aerial view of Kivalina, Alaska, which is threatened by rising sea levels in the Arctic. http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-...na-alaska-be-first-climate-change-refugees-us Will these Alaska villagers be America's first climate change refugees? Science Friday August 09, 2015 · 9:00 AM EDT Writer Adam Wernick (follow) Producer Annie Minoff (follow) Comment Kivalina-from-above.jpg Credit: Re-locate Kivalina Scientists estimate that due to climate change, the village of Kivalina, in northwestern Alaska, will be underwater by the year 2025. Player utilities Popout Share download This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview. In 2008, the Inupiat village sued 24 of the world's biggest fossil fuel companies for damages. In 2013, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case and the village has declared it will not file a new claim in state court. Meanwhile, nature, heedless of humankind’s eternal squabbles, goes about its business: the sea around Kivalina continues to rise, the storms get stronger, the ice gets thinner — and Kivalina's 400 residents must grapple with how to relocate in the decade they're estimated to have left. Kivalina is on a very thin barrier reef island between the Chukchi Sea and the Kivalina Lagoon, in the northwest of Alaska, above the Arctic Circle. It takes three plane flights to get there: one to Anchorage; another to a town called Kotzebue; and a third, aboard a tiny cargo plane, to Kivalina. Kivalina City Council member Colleen Swan says the people of the village rely for food mostly on what the environment, especially the ocean, provides for them. “It’s been our way to make a living for hundreds of years,” she says. “During the winter months the ice is part of our landscape, because we go out there and we set up camps and hunt, and it's all seasonal. We were able to see the changes years ago.” In May, June and July, the men of the village go out on the ice hunting bearded seals. They cut up the seals, dry them and store them for the winter. “That provides the winter supply,” Swan says. “That’s what keeps us warm in the Arctic.” About 15 years ago, the villagers noticed the season started two weeks early and the ice began to thin sooner than before. “We didn't notice at first the gradual change until it became two weeks early consistently from year to year,” Swan says. Now, she says, the hunters must remain vigilant, keeping a close eye on the ice, the seals and the sea. If they don't, they could miss the hunting season. “The hardest one to swallow was the fact that our ice wasn't safe any more for us to set up whaling camps,” Swan says. The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, so sea ice is forming on the Kivalina coastline later in the year and melting faster in the spring and summer. The lack of sea ice makes the island vulnerable to erosion from storms that occur regularly in the fall. Lack of sea ice also means warmer waters, which increase the severity of storms that hit the island. The 2008 case against the fossil fuel companies was a 'public nuisance' claim that accused them of inflicting 'unreasonable harm' upon the villagers because they are among the world's largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Climate science is nearly unanimous on the point that increased greenhouse gases emissions are leading to sea level rise around the world. The village originally voted to relocate as far back as 1992, but it is massively expensive. Their court case against the fossil fuel companies sought damages to help pay for the residents’ relocation. Now, with the case dismissed on the basis that its claims comes under rules of the Clean Air Act and not federal tort law, the villagers have nowhere to turn except the government. They did get a $500,000 grant last month from an arts organization to study relocation, but in general, no dice. “Whenever we bring up relocation or climate change and ask, ‘Where do we go to talk about this with the government,’ the reply is always, ‘There's no agency set up to address those questions,’” Swan says. Christine Shearer, who wrote about Kivalina's legal case in her book, Kivalina: A Climate Change Story, agrees. Disaster management policies are designed to deal with the aftermath of a disaster, she says. A disaster declaration releases funding aimed at helping a community rebuild or relocate within the place the disaster occurred. But there are no policies in place to relocate an entire community, like Kivalina, prior to an actual disaster. “We don't have a federal agency in charge of that, and so it's really fallen on the people of Kivalina and other Alaskan natives in a similar situation to try to put that together themselves, and that's quite a task,” Shearer says. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell visited Kivalina earlier this year and Colleen Swan sees some hope in that. Jewell’s visit was intended to raise awareness of Kivalina’s plight and to highlight that in the coming decades numerous other towns along US coastlines may face the same problem. “More communities, more cities, more states, more tribes are going to have to deal with trying to help people who are being affected by climate change,” Christine Shearer says. “I think more lawsuits will be filed, and I think it might get to a point where fossil fuel companies might find it's less costly to settle than to keep fighting these lawsuits.” Swan says she is exhausted by the stress of watching her community wash away and wondering whether they will need to evacuate. “We just had a minor storm last fall and I'm one of the first responders if anything goes wrong, so I keep an eye on things,” she says. “When we got that storm last fall, I decided I'm just going to go to sleep. I'm tired of worrying, I want to get some rest.” “The next morning when I woke up, I saw the impacts from a minor storm and how quickly the water rose, and I realized that was a very dangerous thing for me to do, to sleep, to not face the reality of that night,” she continues. “I realized this is what climate deniers do — not us. Not us, who face the reality every day. We wake up to it. There was never a debate for the people of Kivalina. We just wake up to it every morning.” This story is based on an interview that aired on PRI's Science Friday with Ira Flatow. UQ
Q http://www.climatecentral.org/news/us-with-10-feet-of-sea-level-rise-17428 What Does U.S. Look Like With 10 Feet of Sea Level Rise? Published: May 13th, 2014 Benjamin Strauss By Benjamin Strauss New research indicates that climate change has already triggered an unstoppable decay of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The projected decay will lead to at least 4 feet of accelerating global sea level rise within the next two-plus centuries, and at least 10 feet of rise in the end. What does the U.S. look like with an ocean that is 10 feet higher? The radically transformed map would lose 28,800 square miles of land, home today to 12.3 million people. Click on the image above to check for threats from sea level rise and storm surge. These figures come from Climate Central research published in 2012, analyzing and mapping every coastal city, county and state in the lower 48 states. (A next generation of research is currently under way.) Cities with the Most Population on Affected Land CITY POPULATION 1. New York City 2. New Orleans 3. Miami 4. Hialeah, FL 5. Virginia Beach 6. Fort Lauderdale 7. Norfolk 8. Stockton, CA 9. Metairie, LA 10. Hollywood, FL 703,000 342,000 275,000 224,000 195,000 160,000 157,000 142,000 138,000 126,000 All cities More than half of the area of 40 large cities (population over 50,000) is less than 10 feet above the high tide line, from Virginia Beach and Miami (the largest affected), down to Hoboken, N.J. (smallest). Twenty-seven of the cities are in Florida, where one-third of all current housing sits below the critical line — including 85 percent in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Each of these counties is more threatened than any whole state outside of Florida – and each sits on bedrock filled with holes, rendering defense by seawalls or levees almost impossible. By the metric of most people living on land less than 10 ft above the high tide line, New York City is most threatened in the long run, with a low-lying population count of more than 700,000. Sixteen other cities, including New Orleans, La.; Norfolk, Va.; Stockton, Calif.; Boston, Mass.; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Jacksonville, Fla.; are on the list of places with more than 100,000 people below the line. (Much of New Orleans is already below sea level, but is protected at today’s level by levees.) Climate Central’s enhanced analysis paints a much more detailed pictured for completed states. For example, more than 32,000 miles of road and $950 billion of property currently sit on affected land in Florida. Threatened property in New York and New Jersey totals more than $300 billion. And New England states all face important risks. The predicted sea level rise will take a long time to unfold. The numbers listed here do not represent immediate or literal threats. Under any circumstances, coastal populations and economies will reshape themselves over time. But the new research on West Antarctic Ice Sheet decay — and the amount of humanity in the restless ocean’s way — point to unrelenting centuries of defense, retreat, and reimagination of life along our coasts. NEW YORK CITY New York City projections showing water levels 10 feet above high tide line. Click on the map to explore. ST. PETERSBURG St. Petersburg, Fla., projections showing water levels 10 feet above high tide line. Click on the map to explore. BOSTON Boston projections showing water levels 10 feet above high tide line. Click on the map to explore. Dr. Ben Strauss is Vice President for Climate Impacts and the Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central. UQ
1. your team uses tree ring proxies to develop you fudged hockey stick chart... and now you are arguing that we are liars for stating the satellite measurements of temperature don't show warming even though the are pretty much in agreement with the measurements of ocean temps and its a NASA . How the fuck do you argue that the earth is losing ice? do you think the people are pulling out tap measures? your integrity is so low it can't be measured. Why do you have to be such a troll? 2. Climate model results summarized by the IPCC in their third assessment show overall good agreement with the satellite temperature record. In particular both models and satellite record show a global average warming trend for the troposphere (models range for TLT/T2LT 0.6 - 0.39 °C/decade; avg 0.2 °C/decade) and a cooling of the stratosphere (models range for TLS/T4 -0.7 - 0.08 °C/decade; avg -0.25 °C/decade).[41] 3. Here we see NOAA nasa altered the records you seem so proud of... https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com...-altered-us-temperatures-after-the-year-2000/ 4. George Orwell explained how this worked. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Q http://www.dw.com/en/worst-case-sce...o-more-new-york-berlin-or-shanghai/a-18714345 Massive sea level rise Ricarda Winkelmann in Antarctica. (Photo: Institut für Klimafolgenforschung Die Antarktis) Ricarda Winkelmann: "If we want to avoid Antarctica to become ice-free, we need to keep coal, gas and oil in the ground" If we burned all available fossil fuel resources, the Antarctic ice sheet would collapse, according to the study. As a consequence, sea levels would rise by 3 centimeters (1.2 inches) per year. The end of the line - after several thousand years - would be reached at 58 meters (190 feet). With that, all the ice in Antarctica would have melted. Europe and Asia would be hit the hardest. In northern Europe, the Netherlands would be completely swallowed by the sea. German cities of Hamburg and Berlin would be gone. Germany's coastline would move south by up to 400 kilometers (250 miles). UQ