Sunday, October 12, 2008

A Scary Thought

Little Known Facts About the Ocean (http://marinebio.org/MarineBio/Facts/) says that

'The sea level has risen with an average of 10-25 cm over the past 100 years and scientists expect this rate to increase. Sea levels will continue rising even if the climate has stabilized, because the ocean reacts slowly to changes. 10,000 years ago the ocean level was about 110 m lower than it is now. If all the world's ice melted, the oceans would rise 66 m.'

If (when?) the ice were to melt, what would the world look like? This website shows....

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vinson/ice.html

Some scary pictures there....especially with the increasing population of our world. Would Nova Scotia still exist? Probably not....

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