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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 03:07 PM
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New York set to be big loser as sea levels rise (BBC)
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News, Vienna

New York is a major loser and Reykjavik a winner from new forecasts of sea level rise in different regions.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in 2007 that sea levels would rise at least 28cm (1ft) by the year 2100.

But this is a global average; and now a Dutch team has made what appears to be the first attempt to model all the factors leading to regional variations.

Other researchers say the IPCC's figure is likely to be a huge under-estimate.

Whatever the global figure turns out to be, there will be regional differences.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13011073
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 03:10 PM
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1. And what of......
...the city's http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7406112">wildlife? where will they go? Pennsylvania? Certainly not New Jersey?



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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-08-11 03:11 PM
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2. Always buy the house on the hill.
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-11 03:11 AM
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3. Good.
Maybe people there will start to wake up ...

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