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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich
but with protecting humanity and avoiding death and suffering for a few billion who are in harm's way and don't have the resources to get out of it.
Are there scientific reports that predict death and suffering for a few billion due to ice melts? I thought that the IPCC currently predicts the sea level rise to be about a half a foot to two feet over the next century. A foot per century is not too much different than what the sea level rise has been since the 1800s at least. From the predicitions it sounds like dealing with this rise is well within our capability while we wean ourselves from fossil fuels.
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The IPCC report is one estimate, yes. I prefer to plan for the worst-case scenario, a sudded loosening of the western ice sheet, which is also a possibility. It would result in a much more rapid rise, or series of rises, than a gradual uniform melt.
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