Greenland Faces Tipping Point in 10 Years
Posted by
Target on 8/14/2010, 5:42 pm
We may only have about 10 years to save New Orleans.
'Scientists warn [Congress] that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level'
Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 10 August 2010 19.29 BST
'"Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive," Alley told a briefing in Congress, adding that a rise in the range of 2C to 7C would mean the obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet.'
'The fall-out would be felt thousands of miles away from the Arctic, unleashing a global sea level rise of 23ft (7 metres), Alley warned. Low-lying cities such as New Orleans would vanish.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet-tipping-point
I wonder if we could create an aqueduct from Greenland to the US to use all that melting water.... ;-)
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