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NZ Scientist Warns of Antarctic Ice Melt, Sea Rise


Environment  (tags: climate, ClimateChange, CO2emissions, destruction, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming, weather, oceans )

Marty
- 148 days ago - english.cctv.com
Tim Naish said new evidence showed that changes to Antarctica's most vulnerable element, the West Antarctic ice sheet, could raise global sea levels by up to 5 metres.
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Judy Cross (83)
Saturday July 4, 2009, 6:12 pm
He's not saying that it is about to happen again....right now, is he?

"Polar ice sheets have grown and collapsed at least 40 times over the past 5 million years, causing major sea-level fluctuations," he said in a media release. "The most recent ' interglacial' has lasted 10,000 years, during which time global sea-level and atmospheric temperatures have remained more or less constant, and human civilisation has flourished."
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (251)
Monday July 6, 2009, 2:40 am
Not to sure if it is time for me to buy an ocean going yatch.... or perhaps I should be putting in an order like everyone else.... sherbet it is so dificult to predict these things... but I am sure we can expect some changes... so keep your flippers on.
 
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