Melting ice could cause gravity shift

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/melting-ice-could-cause-gravity-shift-1685201.html

Northern hemisphere sea levels 'will rise the most' if Antarctic sheet disintegrates

By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Friday, 15 May 2009

The melting of one of the world's largest ice sheets would alter the Earth's field of gravity and even its rotation in space so much that it would cause sea levels along some coasts to rise faster than the global average, scientists said yesterday.

The rise in sea levels would be highest on the west and east coasts of North America where increases of 25 per cent more than the global average would cause catastrophic flooding in cities such as New York, Washington DC and San Francisco.

[glowing]

1. Guess Mother Nature would take care of Wallstreet and Washington for us.

[tj2001]

2. Time to buy property in the Poconos

Everybody will be moving that way. Or the hills of Tennessee.

[imdjh]

3. I'd rather drown nt

[HillbillyBob]

5. Only one of the many reasons we moved from near

the beach in SoFla to the hills of North Carolina's Piedmont!
Crime such as drive by shootings, drug dealers, getting mugged in front of the house, being downsized and outsourced, shallow 'friends' crumby greedy landlords, hurricanes(lived through H Andrew) were among other reasons.
I did not realize just how much the peace and quiet would calm my nerves though.

[trof]

4. I see a new disaster movie scenario.

[HopeHoops]

6. So THAT's why I kept falling down last night!

Or maybe I was drunk - hard call.

[countingbluecars]

7. That's not good. n/t