How high will oceans rise? Will it flood coastal cities? When? Should I sell Oceanside Timeshare now or wait?
Would it be a good strategy to buy some land off the coast a little ways in the hopes it will some day shortly become ocean front property? If so, how far back from shore? Of course I am talking about if we have Global Warming and melting polars.
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What a great strategy for investing in the future! By all means sell the timeshare interest now before waves come lapping at your front door. Al Gore says that there will be enough melting for the oceans to rise about 20 feet. Others say something more like 18 inches over the next 50 years. Let’s compromise and pick eleven feet. Using this draw a line inland from the coast such that any point on the line is exactly eleven feet above the high tide level. Then all you have to do is start locating properties just on the inland side of the line and build your dream house.
I can imagine all the fun you’ll have sitting in your Barcalounger growing old and looking out your front window at the encroaching ocean. Hopefully, when the very last building between you and the ocean is finally knocked down you’ll still be young enough to hop on your board and go ride some tasty waves.
Hang ten for me, dude, for giving you the encouragement to do this.
Actually the temperature of the earth has increased less than 7/10 of 1 degree (C) from 1880 to 2005. That is an increase of about 1 degree (F) in 125 years. You may choose to believe that is global warming or you may not. Source: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif There are numerous charts all over the internet showing the same. Some say that 1 degree is enough to impact the global climate, others say it’s not. Most proponents of global warming think the earth’s temperature has risen much more than that and don’t even know that it has only risen by 1 degree. But the charts do not lie as do the proponents on both sides of this issue. The average temperature in Antarctica is 109 degrees below zero. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Climate It seems to me 108 below (one degree warmer) is still pretty cold and not enough to melt anything. But there are those that say it will.
If you take a glass and fill it 2/3 full of water, then fill it to the top with ice cubes… when the ice melts does the glass overflow? No! Then neither will melting ice, (if that were to happen) flood the earth. So don’t worry about it.
Back in the ’70s all the hype was about global COOLING and another ice age was coming. I remember that they blamed pollution for that too. They said that all the pollution was darkening the skies and not as much sun was coming through so the earth was cooling off. It took many years to discover that they were mistaken and it was all just hype. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling So when someone says, "the sky is falling" don’t believe everything you hear on either side of the issue. There are Spin Doctors galore out there.
Most of the time people will form an opinion and not really be informed about the subject with which they become so opinionated about. So it’s best that you not form your opinions from other’s opinions, (as in this forum) but on the facts presented. (Many do not provide any proof or links to prove their point, just their opinion.) With that said we do have a responsibility to do our part by doing whatever is within your power to keep our planet alive and well.
I hope that helps…
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ftm- That’s what this forum is about. Ppl ask questions and other ppl answer. It matters not if we paste an answer or type it.
1. Your chart showing 2 degrees increase is of the Northern Hemisphere. My NASA chart shows the temperature of the EARTH, not just the northern hemisphere. In fact here is a site http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/bigdea... from the EPA stating the global temperature has increased less than 1 degree over the past century. All the global charts show similar temp changes. None of them show 2 degrees. You need to compare apples to apples here and stop the manipulation of what is being said. Global means all the earth, not just the northern hemisphere.
2. The second reference I gave says, "Temperatures reach a minimum of between -85 °C and -89 °C (-121 °F and -130 °F) in the winter and about 0 °C (32 °F) higher in the summer months." If you AVERAGE the winter temps given with the summer temps, you come up with -109 degrees average for the year. Again you are manipulating the answer to say something it does not say. You HAVE to take the minimum and the maximum to get an average. I’m surprised you don’t know that.
3. I never said global cooling had strong support, in fact I said it was hype. The article proves that it was just that.
Next you go on to say, "Scientists are predicting…" It’s what they do, they say, "it could, it may, maybe, probably, we predict…" Where are the FACTS in predictions and maybe and probably? The truth is there are no facts in those words. They keep their jobs by keeping the hype going… most people can see that.
Last, I clicked on your references and they either go to a "file not found" or a type of blog site where ppl give opinions. We want facts – not opinions.
You have twisted what I said by adding northern hemisphere charts when I referenced global charts, you have played down the temps in Antarctica, when my facts are accurate and you have not really given any working links where we can check what you are saying.
Sorry but that won’t work in this forum…
The prediction is the sea level will rise about 3 feet.
"CapNemo" has been going to global warming questions and copying a statement pooh-poohing the threat. His statement is misleading and incorrect.
He says it’s only increased by 1 degree (F) in 125 years. Actually, it’s increased by twice that. If you look at the link below, the area in red is 1.1 degree (C) which converts to 2 degrees (F). He says, “The average temperature in Antarctica is 109 degrees below zero.” If you go to his source, that’s the number for the MINIMUM temperature, not the average. Then he says, “Back in the ’70s all the hype was about global COOLING”. I was around then. I don’t remember any hype. And if you go to his source, it says, “The theory never had strong scientific support”.
The truth is that those 2 degrees are HUGE in the scale of average weather change. But the real problem is the speed of change and that it’s accelerating.
Scientists are predicting a temp 4 to 8 degree (F) increase over the next 75 years. “This may not sound like a great deal, but just a fraction of a degree can have huge implications on the climate, with very noticeable consequences." (http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/U/ukweather2080/5_predicting.html )
The link between CO2 and global warming is undisputed at this time. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by more than 50% over the last 115 years (250 to 381 ppm, http://awesomenature.tribe.net/thread/fcc70c8b-be7e-489b-85f7-6c6c08031c65 ). In the last 30 years, it increased at a rate 30 times faster than at any period during the last 800,000 years. In other words, this change is totally unprecedented. (http://awesomenature.tribe.net/thread/fcc70c8b-be7e-489b-85f7-6c6c08031c65 ). What else is totally unprecedented about the last 115 years? Industrialization and the population explosion. Duh. This is not rocket science; it is simple arithmetic!
"… the good news is that, within the foreseeable future, Maine residents will be able to stop banking their foundations and to store their down parkas and snow blowers in the barn permanently. The bad news is that a lot of those barns will be underwater" (http://awesomenature.tribe.net/thread/fcc70c8b-be7e-489b-85f7-6c6c08031c65 )
If global warming wasn’t a real threat, why have 178 nations ratified the Kyoto Protocol to limit CO2 emissions? Why are the US and Australia the only two holdouts among the industrialized nations? (http://environment.about.com/od/kyotoprotocol/i/kyotoprotocol_2.htm )
CapNemo’s statement reminds me about the frog in the pot on the stove that doesn’t move as the water gradually gets hotter and hotter. From this seemingly insignificant 2 degree change, we’ve already seen enormous consequences. (http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Climate_Change/Impacts/) How much hotter does it have to get for some people to wake up and face the music? And in the meantime, while you’re pondering all of this, be sure to check the dates on people’s references. Things are changing so rapidly that older information is no longer useful.
Average Northern Hemisphere Temperatures for last 1000 years:
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/Template/0_CO2ScienceB2C/images/subject/other/figures/mannetal_nh1000.jpg