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mikeyohe said: NOVA – Official Website | If Polar Ice Vanished – PBS

If Polar Ice Vanished
By Peter Tyson

What would happen if all of Greenland’s ice or all of Antarctica’s ice melted? Nobody expects this anytime soon, but as a kind of visual thought experiment, the late Bill Haxby of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University graphically depicted how the coastlines of four regions—the mid-Atlantic U.S., the state of Florida, northern Europe, and Southeast Asia—might change if the planet’s seas rose 17 feet or 170 feet. (These are conservative estimates for how much seas would rise with the melting of all of Greenland’s or Antarctica’s ice, respectively.) For comparison, Haxby also showed how the same coastlines would have looked 20,000 years ago at the height of the Ice Age, when sea levels were some 400 feet lower than they are today.

Al Gore, remember him and the twenty-foot water rise? Gore claims that potential melting of ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctic will force the “evacuation” of millions of people to escape sea level rise of 6 meters (20 feet).

So was Al Gore wrong in that possible scenario?

I was the one disagreeing with those myths. Remember the denier.

Then you were wrong, weren’t you?