10 Feet of Global Sea Level Rise Is Now Guaranteed

Scary

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/10-feet-of-global-sea-level-rise-now-inevitable

At least 10 feet of sea level rise is now guaranteed worldwide; it's all but inevitable, a done deal. An ice sheet two miles thick has collapsed in West Antarctica—glaciologists have been dreading this moment for decades, though in recent years, it was more of a question of when than if—and there is nothing that can stop it from melting now.

NASA scientists say so, glaciologists say so, researchers who've spent their entire careers studying the slow and increasingly inevitable melt of our planet's permanent ice stores say so. They say so in two new studies debuting this week; one in Science and one in Geophysical Research Letters. They are all saying we should begin getting comfortable with sea levels that lap up 10 feet higher on our shores in a matter of decades.

Are we at risk of flooding?

Maybe we need to learn from the Netherlands and start building some of these.

Or these - fascinating stuff.

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