Topic: Sea level rise: The New York Times got the story

[sam]

Yesterday, the New York Times ran an excellent cover story on sea level rise, together with two full pages inside the paper, fancy graphs and great photographs (online version here). The author, Justin Gillis, researched the piece for months, visited Greenland and talked to most of the leading scientists in the field – many of which he cites in the article. The science presented is correct and up-to-date and the story is a gripping read. That’s how science journalism should be!

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/11/sea-level-rise-the-new-york-times-got-the-story/

[GillE]

Very interesting, well presented and not a little scary.

[Clive]

I should never have taken out a 999 year freehold on my seaside apartment!   

[Simon]

Well, you won't have to worry about renewing it for a while. 

[GillE]

The water that's not allowed to ingress shorelines naturally because of valuable property will have to be diverted somewhere.  Logically, this must exacerbate coastal erosion elsewhere, mostly farming land which is needed to feed the people who live in those valuable properties.

Thankfully, grockles won't be sunning themselves on the Costa del Bromsgrove in my lifetime  .

[Rik]

We can send all the excess water to third world countries as part of our aid package.  ':|

[sam]

lol