Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
by chr1 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:07AM
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You are right, I should've said slowly raising. If we let it to actually rise and flood cities it would be indeed a catastrophe, but the perspective of raising sea can incentivize richer countries to invest into moving that water somewhere else.
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Re:July was the hottest month ever recorded, according to Nasa
by CydeWeys on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @09:05PM
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The best (and really only) place to store that much water is in kilometer-thick ice sheets at the poles ... the melting of which is what is causing the current problems. The aquifers simply aren't close to big enough to make a dent.