Re: The 2005 hurricane season

In article <JZw$EEHtaSOEFw7r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert Sneddon <fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No-one who has studied the data
disputes that sea levels are going to rise over the next few decades;
the rate of rise is the only thing we have some control over, to turn
disasters into manageable change.

The last actual figure I saw on that, I think from the relevant U.N.
group, predicted sea level rises of half a meter to a meter over the
next century. At that rate, talk of "disaster" is nonsense. If it
happened overnight it would be a serious problem in a few parts of the
world, but a century is a long time.

Since then, I've seen various scare stories about reasons sea level
might rise substantially faster than that, but nothing solid. Mostly it
seems to be people jumping from "sea leavel rising" to "sea level rising
by a hundred feet," at which points large parts of the currently
habitable world would indeed flood.

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