Re:Rising Temperatures Could Melt Most Himalayan Glaciers by...
by yongjik on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:51PM
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In 1989:
> As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations ...
In 2018 [1]:
> If the rate of ocean rise continues to change at this pace, sea level will rise 26 inches (65 centimeters) by 2100 — enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities ...
So this is an example of mankind having a pretty reasonable estimate of impending disasters back in freaking 1989, and doing nothing, and thirty years later still blaming scientists because the predicted disaster, unfolding as we see now, did not yet hit (some of) us personally... right?
> As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations ...
In 2018 [1]:
> If the rate of ocean rise continues to change at this pace, sea level will rise 26 inches (65 centimeters) by 2100 — enough to cause significant problems for coastal cities ...
So this is an example of mankind having a pretty reasonable estimate of impending disasters back in freaking 1989, and doing nothing, and thirty years later still blaming scientists because the predicted disaster, unfolding as we see now, did not yet hit (some of) us personally... right?
[1] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2680/new-study-finds-sea-level...