"Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn MARLOWE HOOD, AFP
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models."
It’s time to stop building structures and services on floodplains
especially floodplains of river estuaries and on low coastal areas.
Scientists are unsure of the sea rise that will inevitably occur because land ice is melting at a greater rate than first predicted and sea water is expanding because the sea water is warming. It is usually suggested that the sea will rise by at least a metre by 2100, only eighty years from now, but scientists are now stating this is a gross underestimation.
The cost to governments and taxpayers will be enormous when services require relocation. The cost to taxpayers will be enormous if planned retreat is not agreed and taxes are utilised in a vain attempt to hold back the sea to protect private property.
Scientists are unsure of the sea rise that will inevitably occur because land ice is melting at a greater rate than first predicted and sea water is expanding because the sea water is warming. It is usually suggested that the sea will rise by at least a metre by 2100, only eighty years from now, but scientists are now stating this is a gross underestimation.
The cost to governments and taxpayers will be enormous when services require relocation. The cost to taxpayers will be enormous if planned retreat is not agreed and taxes are utilised in a vain attempt to hold back the sea to protect private property.