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GORDON wrote: I hope we discover thousand year old seawall technology before that three inch rise.

Because of the growing contributions from Antarctic melting, the authors say sea level rise is now likely to exceed three feet by 2100 if carbon emissions continue to increase.
Perhaps most concerning is what may be happening to the Antarctic ice sheet, which has the potential to raise sea levels much higher.
The scientists warn that more study is needed, but say changes observed in parts of Antarctica could be the first signs the ice sheet has reached a point of no return.
"If this is true, then there is a chance of a multi-meter sea level rise within the next two to three centuries," said Regine Hock, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a coordinating lead author on chapter two of this IPCC report. "That is very substantial."
Even if collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet is not imminent, the report says that many of the 680 million people around the world living in low-lying coastal areas will experience annual flooding events by 2050 that used to occur only once a century.

TheCatt wrote: Sea levels may rise faster than expected by 2100. But Vince will be dead by then, so fuck those people.

GORDON wrote: If there was any more uncertainty, persuasion, and lack of facts in this article it could be filed under fantasy. It says absolutely nothing.

GORDON wrote: If there was any more uncertainty, persuasion, and lack of facts in this article it could be filed under fantasy. It says absolutely nothing.

GORDON wrote: I wonder what that's going to do to the taste of the water.

Leisher wrote: I'm firmly in the "we are not doing the planet any favors" camp, but being fair, Gordon has a point here about the wording in that article.

GORDON wrote: IIRC a lot of cans are lined with glass?

TheCatt wrote:

GORDON wrote: IIRC a lot of cans are lined with glass?

If that's a thing, I am unaware of it. I thought they used polymers/plastics/etc

Vince wrote:

TheCatt wrote:

GORDON wrote: IIRC a lot of cans are lined with glass?

If that's a thing, I am unaware of it. I thought they used polymers/plastics/etc

Yeah, I can't think of a way to do that that isn't... at least unhealthy if not outright dangerous.

Vince wrote: Well, just look up "flexible glass" (which is what it would have to be) and... I don't think that's a thing now. At least not in drinking cans.

GORDON wrote: I went ahead and clicked on it. In spite of seeing that child mouthpiece's video at the top, I went ahead and looked through it.

Because of the growing contributions from Antarctic melting, the authors say sea level rise is now likely to exceed three feet by 2100 if carbon emissions continue to increase.
Perhaps most concerning is what may be happening to the Antarctic ice sheet, which has the potential to raise sea levels much higher.
The scientists warn that more study is needed, but say changes observed in parts of Antarctica could be the first signs the ice sheet has reached a point of no return.
"If this is true, then there is a chance of a multi-meter sea level rise within the next two to three centuries," said Regine Hock, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a coordinating lead author on chapter two of this IPCC report. "That is very substantial."
Even if collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet is not imminent, the report says that many of the 680 million people around the world living in low-lying coastal areas will experience annual flooding events by 2050 that used to occur only once a century.

If there was any more uncertainty, persuasion, and lack of facts in this article it could be filed under fantasy. It says absolutely nothing.