...0.12 inches (3.2 millimeters) — 60 percent faster than the best estimate of 0.08 inches (2 millimeters) per year, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calculated in 2007.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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I have a good friend that is a world renowned Coastal Geologist Dr. Norbert Psuty at the Rutgers U. Coastal Institute in Sandy Hook, NJ. In 2007 I did a 4 hr. interview with him focused mainly on Coastal issues. The interview ended up in a focused discussion about Global warming and it's immediate effects on the coastal environment in NJ. He had been one of the panelists/scientists on the IPCC and had helped write the report that came out that yr. He told me back then that the sea level predictions didn't include Antarctica or Greenland and subsequently were terribly flawed and had to be revised for the next report 7 yrs. hence. So I'm not surprised a bit that these reports are showing that the World Ocean is rising faster then the 2007 IPCC report said it was back then. As bad as the IPCC Warming reports have been according to the good Dr. they were very very conservative and unreliable.
Yes, this is disturbing news. The implications of global warming itself are hard to fathom, but even this one issue alone is hard to fathom. It represents the entire rethinking of how the world's population that lives near the oceans will adapt - the great port cities, all of them. What's that perhaps 1/4 of the world's population maybe more.
Yep, 25% of the world's people live near a coast. Many of the world's major cities are likely going to be lost or seriously impacted at a min. Fortunately, we have time to plan our retreat from the Rising tide. It's a serious issue , a more serious issue is the rapid acidification of the Ocean that is already well advanced and starting to effect the food chain. If the this process continues as it's likely to do a mass extinction in the Ocean will begin and end on land. The last time this happened no mammal over 30 pounds survived.
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