{"id":648,"date":"2009-03-10T21:38:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T10:16:51","slug":"planet-melt-down-is-exceeding-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/planet-melt-down-is-exceeding-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet melt down is exceeding estimates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IPCC&#8217;s estimates of sea-level rising are now expected to be significantly exceeded according to scientists at a climate change summit.  The IPCC took a conservative perspective and used old data.  Today, with new data and refined models the rise in sea-level is expected to be large and soon &#8211; about 3x the IPCC estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sea-level rise may well exceed one meter by 2100 if we continue on our path of increasing emissions,&#8221; said Stefan Rahmstorf, professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. &#8220;Even for a low emission scenario, the best estimate is about one meter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The economic crisis is bad, but will pale in comparison to the ecological crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUSTRE5295EO20090310?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=environmentNews\">Reuters : Sea levels rising faster than expected: scientists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7935159.stm\">BBC: Sea rise &#8216;to exceed projections&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climatecongress.ku.dk\/\"> Copenhagen Climate Change Congress here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7940532.stm\">BBC:  Earth warming faster than thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Economist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13277407\">Climate change A sinking feeling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IPCC&#8217;s estimates of sea-level rising are now expected to be significantly exceeded according to scientists at a climate change summit. The IPCC took a conservative perspective and used old data. Today, with new data and refined models the rise in sea-level is expected to be large and soon &#8211; about 3x the IPCC estimates. &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/planet-melt-down-is-exceeding-estimates\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planet melt down is exceeding estimates.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatechange"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-as","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}