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A team of researchers has found that sea levels could rise up to three times higher over the next century than U.N. estimates have indicated. The findings have dire implications for the 600 million people who live in vulnerable areas. Scientists gathered in Denmark said they expect polar and glacial melting to accelerate.

BBC:

Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low and that sea levels could rise by a metre or more by 2100.

The projections did not include the potential impact of polar melting and ice breaking off, they added.

The implications for millions of people would be “severe”, they warned.

Ten per cent of the world’s population—about 600 million people—live in low-lying areas.

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By Dave24, March 11, 2009 at 10:11 am Link to this comment

As George Carlin once said: “The planet is fine…... *we’re* f-cked.”

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By Beltwaylaid, March 10, 2009 at 7:50 pm Link to this comment
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I wish all the global warming naysayers could be forced to exchange their inland properties for coastal properties. I wonder how that would ‘wash’ with them in about 50 years?

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By coloradokarl, March 10, 2009 at 5:19 pm Link to this comment

We will have the fence finished by 2012, We have every thing we need to survive. Our gun stores sell high capacity assault weapons and for $3600.00 and a clean record you can walk out with a .50 cal. recoilless rifle. My county of 350,000 people has 20,000 concealed weapons permits. When the oceans start to rise DON"T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT !!!

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