Sea will rise faster than expected
September 7, 2008
According to investigator sea levels will raise much faster by the end of the year than officially projected. The rising temperatures caused by global warming will cause the oceans to swell with melted ice which will cause flooding of Florida and Bangladesh together with many other low-lying, densely populated areas of the world.
The warming glaciers will raise sea level in two main ways. As they melt they add more water and they also add more water as ice breaks off from glacial flows. The incidence of this later phenomenon has blasted in recent years for some glaciers draining the southern Greenland Ice Sheet, much to the mystification of glaciologists. Unable to account for such accelerated ice losses, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declined to include them in their widely cited projection of up to 60 centimeters of sea level rise by 2100.
Using all the data available plus some estimates of what’s going on with all glaciers the glaciologist W. Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado managed to estimate the sea raise from 80 centimeters to 200 centimeters by the end of the century. Some researchers also say that the sea rise should be of several meters but this estimate is impossible because its physically untenable once that not enough ice could be pushed through the glacial gates.
These numbers for the sea rise leave many worries since 1 meter of sea rise is a big deal as it would threaten people in many parts of the world.
