On 5 Apr 2007 23:23:08 -0700, wrote:

It's
just that simple. If you want New York (or Galveston, or Miami, or
Shanghai or...) to be above water a hundred years from now, you need
to reduce the amount of CO2 (and methane, and other greenhouse gases)
that you pump into the atmosphere by way of your existence.

Read the IPCC working group 1 technical summary available at
Junkscience.com The Summary for Policy Makers was written by
bureaucrats and does not reflect the document produced by the
scientists.

The worst case sea level rise for the next 100 years is 17 inches. The
worst case over thousands of years is about 40 inches. We can build a
four foot levee pretty reliably of we need to.

More than that would require melting of the Greenland Central Ice
Sheet (20ft) and the Antarctic Ice Sheets (200 ft) but those would
require temperature rises of about 70 degrees F and no model predicts
more than 11 degrees. Even at those temperatures, it would take
thousands of years to melt the Ice Sheets.

What we really can expect over the next few hundred years is a return
to the temperatures we experienced in the Medieval Warm Period from
about 1000 AD to 1400 AD, otherwise known as the Renaissance and the
Age of Discovery, during which long growing seasons and mild winters
allowed man to prosper and build great civilizations.

Oh, the horror.

Don