Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Melbourne floods

Not caused by rain but by a high tide and wind.  And the inexorable rise in the sea level.  Nine inches since 1960.  And now, with the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers moving 10 times as fast as they used to just 20 years ago, thus over time accelerating the sea level rise, it is now expected that by 2100 the sea level will have risen by 2 metres.  That's just 85 years away.  My children will see half of that.  Flooding in Melbourne will happen more and more often.  As it will in other world cities close to sea level.  And the cost of protecting them will be prodigious, far, far more than the cost of switching to a carbon-free future.







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