Friday, March 24, 2006

I've Got Ice In My Glass

& my fingers are moving magically across the keyboard, although I must backspace more than normal. Soon the ice will be gone. My grandchildren may see things that I don't even want to dream about. More alcohol.

"That means that the models of sea-level rise used to predict an increase of up to 3ft by 2100 may have significantly underestimated its ultimate extent, which could be as great as 20ft.

Such a rise would threaten cities such as London, New York, Bombay and Tokyo. Large parts of the Netherlands, Bangladesh and Florida would be inundated, and even smaller rises would flood extreme low-lying areas, such as several Pacific islands and New Orleans."

Emphasis added. Can't catch a break.

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