If there were a 1 in 20 chance that an asteroid would hit the earth, surely we would institute an emergency program to prevent it.http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/06/16369939-horrible-sea-level-rise-of-more-than-3-feet-plausible-by-2100-experts-say?lite
Who besides a thrill seeker would fly in a plane if there were a 1 in 20 chance it would crash and kill them?
Jan. 6, 2013
By John Roach, NBC News
Melting glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland may push up global sea levels more than 3 feet by the end of this century, according to a scientific poll of experts that brings a degree of clarity to a murky and controversial slice of climate science.
Such a rise in the seas would displace millions of people from low-lying countries such as Bangladesh, swamp atolls in the Pacific Ocean, cause dikes in Holland to fail, and cost coastal mega-cities from New York to Tokyo billions of dollars for construction of sea walls and other infrastructure to combat the tides.
"The consequences are horrible," Jonathan Bamber, a glaciologist at the University of Bristol and a co-author of the study published Jan. 6 in the journal Nature Climate Change, told NBC News.
-----
The greatest drama would be a more than 3-foot rise in sea levels from the combined effect of melting ice and thermal expansion, which the study indicates has a 1 in 20 chance of occurring.
2 comments:
Here we go again.....
Don't know what you're trying to say. If it's that people in in our country don't pay attention to a problem until it's too late, you're right.
If you think it's not a problem, note that so far, global warming and its results have been worse than predicted.
Who besides a thrill seeker would fly in a plane if there were a 1 in 20 chance it would crash and kill them?
Post a Comment