Entries tagged with: Sea Level

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The Sea Level Rise Mystery

Twenty inches per decade -- that's the estimate of how rapidly the oceans rose in the last interglacial period about 121,000 years ago, in research appearing in Nature. That's eight feet over 50 years, in a world just 2°C warmer...

Posted on April 16, 2009 4:47 PM

Melting Icecaps and the Global Ocean (Updated)

We're doooooomed, doooo-- wait a minute. If the Greenland icecap sees an even-more-significant melt, how soon do you need to pack your bags and head for the high country? Unless you live along the Atlantic coastlines of North America...

Posted on July 15, 2008 3:25 PM

Monday Topsight, June 30, 2008

• Flooded London: Media designers Squint/Opera have come up with a project they call "Flooded London: 2090," a set of illustrations of London in a late global warming world. As a piece of anticipatory illustration, it's startlingly idyllic -- pictures...

Posted on June 30, 2008 5:02 PM

Data Points: Urban Futures

• Coastal Impact: What Does Sea Level Rise Look Like?: Architecture2030 gives us a taste of what bad case global warming means for coastal cities in the United States. • Leaving Home: For a growing number of people, the optimal...

Posted on January 24, 2008 8:27 PM

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