The Worst Case Keeps Getting Worse
Antarctic Melting May be Speeding Up - CommonDreams.org - Breaking news and views from the progressive community.
The worst case scenario for global climate change keeps getting worse. As I write, the entire continent of Antarctica is changing. The Larson B ice shelf has already broken off and dropped into the sea. Scientists are now saying sea level rise may be meters higher than previously thought, which is going to cause major problems for millions of people around the world.
The worst case scenario for global climate change keeps getting worse. As I write, the entire continent of Antarctica is changing. The Larson B ice shelf has already broken off and dropped into the sea. Scientists are now saying sea level rise may be meters higher than previously thought, which is going to cause major problems for millions of people around the world.
About 100 million people around the world live within a meter of the present-day sea level, CSIRO Marine Research senior principal research scientist Steve Rintoul said. “Those 100 million people will need to go somewhere,” he said.
Worse, every meter of sea level rise causes an inland recession of around 100 meters (300 feet) and more erosion occurs with every storm.
“You can’t just say we’ll just put sea walls,” Hunter said.
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