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Disastrous Sea Level Rise Is an Issue for Today's Public - Not Next Millennium's
Tue, 2015-08-04 10:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux
huffingtonpost.com - by Dr. James Hansen - July 27, 2015
. . . 2°C global warming, rather than being a safe "guardrail," is highly dangerous. . . .
. . . My conclusion, based on the total information available, is that continued high emissions would result in multi-meter sea level rise this century and lock in continued ice sheet disintegration such that building cities or rebuilding cities on coast lines would become foolish. . . .
. . . A startling conclusion of our paper is that effects of freshwater release onto the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic are already underway and 1-2 decades sooner in the real world than in the model (Fig. 2).
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