Re: When London is submerged and New York is awash...

From: Nico Coesel (nico_at_puntnl.niks)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:27:05 GMT

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:08:18 GMT, nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
>wrote:
>
>>Winfield Hill <hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hot times coming up this week in the Antarctic: A collision is imminent
>>> between a 1,200-square-mile iceberg (the size of Long Island) and the
>>> Drygalski Ice Tongue, at one end of the Ross Ice Shelf. As a result,
>>> the huge ice tongue itself may soon break off and float into the ocean.
>>>
>>> ETC (estimated time to collision), four days and counting. Film at 11,
>>> http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/104952main_B15A_dates.mpg
>>>
>>> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18424796.100
>>> "When London is submerged and New York awash, we may look back on 2004
>>> as the year when the water started rising. Observations collected from
>>> both North and South Poles show that the world's ice sheets and glaciers
>>> are disintegrating faster than anyone thought possible."
>>
>>Damn, my house is already several meters below sea level.
>
>
>Where's that? I grew up in New Orleans, about -3 feet, half a mile

The area where I live used to be part an inner sea less than 40 years
ago. Like many places in the Netherlands a dyke was constructed and
the water was pumped away to create land. About 40% of the country is
below sea level.
So, yes, rising sea levels worry me a bit. 

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