Sea level rise: it goes up and up...


	Sea level rise: it goes up and up...
balthazarus
7-5-2009 7:43 AM
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7-5-2009 3:41 PM
shaor
Yet, the rivers are shrinking! weird!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5ced21e9-8b4d-4b42-aca6-f6647b3fe1d0/69014F43-7E3E-4F1A-BAF3-04F4857AFE88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/3-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/3-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/3-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html">Sea level rise: It's worse than we thought</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/3-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><P>As more and more ice slides into the ocean, sea levels are rising faster and faster – but just how high will they get?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/3-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/AD3D5395-1497-4F80-80A8-097AB1557D88" alt="The great unknown" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html">the fate of the planet's ice, from relatively small ice caps in places like the Canadian Arctic, the Andes and the Himalayas, to the immense ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, will largely determine the speed and extent of sea level rise</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><P class="infuse">The oceans are already rising. Global average sea level rose about 17 centimetres in the 20th century, and the rate of rise is increasing. The biggest uncertainty for those trying to predict future changes is how humanity will behave. Will we start to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases sometime soon, or will we continue to pump ever more into the atmosphere?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html">According to <A target="nsarticle" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1143906" linkindex="45">one recent estimate</A>, the continued loss of this ice will add another 10 to 20 centimetres to sea level by 2100</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.300-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html">The second biggest contributor has been thermal expansion of the oceans</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/1-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/1-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/1-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/9A97AEB7-3595-4F0F-AD8F-417C524E5B62" alt="Ancient reefs in Mexico suggest the sea rose 3 metres within 100 years (Image: Paul Blanchon)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/1-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/24345B0A-A79A-4C2A-8448-DD58BBA97E2A" alt="How high, how soon?" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/articleimages/mg20327151.300/1-sea-level-rise-its-worse-than-we-thought.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/73AC5AFD-1026-486C-B180-B1693A55F20B" alt="Greenland is already losing enough ice to raise sea level by 0.8 millimetres per year (Image: Nick Cobbing)" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/69014F43-7E3E-4F1A-BAF3-04F4857AFE88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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