Wednesday, April 07, 2004
So much for real estate with an ocean view
And goodbye Manhattan....
Heck, they vote Blue... Who needs 'em ....
The Greenland ice sheet is all but doomed to melt away to nothing, according to a new modelling study. If it does melt, global sea levels will rise by seven metres, flooding most of the world's coastal regions.
Jonathan Gregory, a climatologist at the University of Reading, UK, says global warming could start runaway melting on Greenland within 50 years, and it will "probably be irreversible this side of a new ice age". The only good news is that it a total meltdown is likely to take at least 1000 years.
(via New Scientist)
Heck, they vote Blue... Who needs 'em ....
