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More information and caveats: http://blog.firetree.net/2006/05/18/more-about-flood-maps/ http://blog.firetree.net/2006/05/18/more-about-flood-maps/ Climate ch
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More information and caveats:
http://blog.firetree.net/2006/05/18/more-about-flood-maps/ http://blog.firetree.net/2006/05/18/more-about-flood-maps/
Climate change predictions on sea level rise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise
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More recent research from 2008 observed rapid declines in ice-mass balance from both Greenland and Antarctica, and concluded that sea-level rise by 2100 is likely to be at least twice as large as that presented by IPCC AR4, with an upper limit of about two meters.
- spikels 13y agoThe most recent IPPC report[1] has lowered the sea level rise forecast somewhat. Depending on the atmosphereic CO2 scenario[2] the 5-95% range of sea level rise will be from 0.26-0.54 meters (RCP2.6) to 0.45-0.82 meters (RCP8.5). It is very unlikely that sea level rise will be much more than a meter, say over 1.3 meters. It is now generally thought it will take several hundred years or longer to get rises over a few meters. It is important to give accurate information on the impact of global warming as we already have a huge problem of the public misunderstanding the issue. Your map seems very well done but a default rise of 7 meters, while it shows off the technology, may just add to the confusion. [1] http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5_WGI-12Doc2b_FinalDraft_Chapter13.pdf http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5_WGI-1... (see 13-4 for summary). [2] Atmospheric CO2 scenarios are now known as RCPs for Representative Concentration Pathways in the IPCC AR5 report.