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More Melt, More Sea Level Rise, and an Alarming Change in Sea Level Rise Rate

By Bruce Melton PESea Level Rise

Abrupt climate change has arrived. They told us this would happen twenty years ago if we did not reduce emissions. We did not and it has. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a Ronald Reagan Presidential Initiative formerly called the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, tells us an important truth in the climate change…

October 10, 2012

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The Consequences of Three Feet of Sea Level Rise

By Bruce Melton PESea Level Rise

If sea level rises just three feet, 1.5 million housing units will be flooded and 3.7 million people displaced. Pick an amount of sea level increase, any old amount will do. The minimum is the IPCC estimate of about 15 inches (a half meter). This of course does not include any increase in discharge from…

March 17, 2012

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

More Melt, More Sea Level Rise, and an Alarming Change in Sea Level Rise Rate

The Consequences of Three Feet of Sea Level Rise

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