'Sleeping giant' glacier may lift seas two metres: study
Source: yahoo new
Paris (AFP) - A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a "tipping point" of no return, researchers said Wednesday.
To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets as dangerous drivers of sea level rise.
But the new study, following up on earlier work by the same team, has identified a third major threat to hundreds of millions of people living in coastal areas around the world.
"I predict that before the end of the century the great global cities of our planet near the sea will have two- or three-metre (6.5 - 10 feet) high sea defences all around them," said Martin Siegert, co-director of the Grantham Institute and Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, and the study's senior author.
From the air, the contours of Totten Glacier -- roughly the size of France -- are invisible because the entire Antarctic continent is covered by a seamless, kilometres-thick blanket of snow and ice.
Geologically, however, it is a distinct -- and volatile -- beast.
- Disintegration accelerating -
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sleeping-giant-glacier-may-lift-seas-two-metres-231721809.html?nhp=1
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Let's worry about who uses what toilets.
truthisfreedom
(23,168 posts)You know, if they all flush at once, that could affect something...
mnhtnbb
(31,415 posts)rising oceans are subject to the determinations made by Republicans.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/north-carolina-bans-latest-science-rising-sea-level/story?id=16913782
bemildred
(90,061 posts)All those terraced steps on coastal hillsides are going to be beaches again.
And where are those people going to go?
truthisfreedom
(23,168 posts)Which will explode in value...
bemildred
(90,061 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I think we all do. It is where we came from. Water is life.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Matthew28
(1,798 posts)Is this including or excluding the sea level change caused by the west Antarctica and greenland ice melt?
WhiteTara
(29,732 posts)but I could be wrong.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)Take the proceeds and buy a sailboat.
Brother Buzz
(36,498 posts)I'm guessing levee building may become 'the' growth industry in the near future.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)A senator had a snowball in Congress.