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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 11:15 PM Original message |
Anticipated Sea Level Rise May Be Faster Than Previously Thought - BBC |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-15-06 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. no shit... nt |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
2. Forgive me if I'm saying something dumb here |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 01:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yeah.... I'm voting for "totally hosed." |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 02:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Sadly, I concur. |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-17-06 06:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Consider the following |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-17-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yeah, but it will be incremental over the next hundred years |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. The striking thing is how many models proved to be way over optimistic. |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 05:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I wouldn't say "over optimistic" - but science is a fundamentally conservative mindset |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-17-06 02:52 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Science, in a way, has to be conservative in order to protect against kooks. |
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Morgana LaFey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-17-06 12:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. Right -- again and again they're wrong because they were too |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-16-06 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. The climate is a non-linear system, |
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