Experts expect ocean levels to rise faster (in the duh dept)

[gulfcoastliberal]

Source: Copyright 2005, Agence France-Presse
Date: October 22, 2005

WASHINGTON: US and European scientists fear the collapse of ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica will raise ocean levels faster than estimated, said a report published yesterday in the journal Science.

The rapid breakdown of the floating ice shelves observed in recent years, the experts said, could destabilise land-based ice sheets and glaciers behind them and cause faster melting and rise in sea levels than anticipated.

Current projections for rises in sea levels do not take into account the new hypothesis, said Peter Clark, professor of geosciences at Oregon State University.

“We may be more vulnerable to sea level rise than we thought and it may be more rapid than we have anticipated,” Clark said. “This is an issue we should take very seriously.”

http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=47561

A little free & unsolicited advice: sell any waterfront property now. Especially along the Gulf Coast.