what can be done to limit impact? The paper states that the average estimate of a five-metre sea level rise should actually go up to seven metres.
The seemingly small difference could submerge much of southern Florida, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., while inundating parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and British Columbia with water.
"If the West Antarctic ice sheet completely collapses, the U.S. and Canadian coasts will be inundated by six to seven metres of additional water, not five metres as people previously thought," said Jerry Mitrovica, a geophysicist at the University of Toronto, who co-wrote the report.
"So that's a lot of excess water on coastal sites that have a lot of population.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090205/science/science_sea_level_rise
I distinctively recall when Shellia Copps was the deputy Prime Minister she told us in an interview that as a result of global warming PEI would become a series of islands and that coastal flooding was coming
She was then muzzled by the Prime Minister and given another portfolio and then got tossed from the party and is now a columnist for the Toronto Sun
-------- Considering that her office was informed a decade ago
What has been done -- what can be done to limit any damage caused by global warming ---
Any suggestions as to the situation occurring in the Arctic with the newly opened sea way "the north west passage" (the polar bears the Inuit etc)
The seemingly small difference could submerge much of southern Florida, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C., while inundating parts of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and British Columbia with water.
"If the West Antarctic ice sheet completely collapses, the U.S. and Canadian coasts will be inundated by six to seven metres of additional water, not five metres as people previously thought," said Jerry Mitrovica, a geophysicist at the University of Toronto, who co-wrote the report.
"So that's a lot of excess water on coastal sites that have a lot of population.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090205/science/science_sea_level_rise
I distinctively recall when Shellia Copps was the deputy Prime Minister she told us in an interview that as a result of global warming PEI would become a series of islands and that coastal flooding was coming
She was then muzzled by the Prime Minister and given another portfolio and then got tossed from the party and is now a columnist for the Toronto Sun
-------- Considering that her office was informed a decade ago
What has been done -- what can be done to limit any damage caused by global warming ---
Any suggestions as to the situation occurring in the Arctic with the newly opened sea way "the north west passage" (the polar bears the Inuit etc)