tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post4380867876093404485..comments2024-01-16T13:06:15.270-06:00Comments on Climate Change: The Next Generation: WWF: Warning on 2 degree rise causing irreversible sea level riseTenney Naumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843130378338023902noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-16739948508882810492008-12-01T05:49:00.000-06:002008-12-01T05:49:00.000-06:00Our government is thinking about investing 1 billi...Our government is thinking about investing 1 billion a year to protect the country. For example the delta comity has suggested to raise the level of the Ijsselmeer (which is the biggest sweet water lake in Europe) with 1,5 meter.. Ken Livingstone thinks all will be in vain and we should better get started to move more into the mainland.<BR/><BR/>He used London as an example by saying that if the Thames barrier wasn't build (they finished it just in time) London wouldn't be an big economical capital anymore. the metro system would be full of water and so on.<BR/><BR/>I think one of the best places to go and start a family these days is Nepal; No risk from the rising sea-level and if it gets warmer you can always move higher up the mountain.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10683125984623063867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-63878227082318215562008-11-29T09:12:00.000-06:002008-11-29T09:12:00.000-06:00Leon, thank you so much for leaving this comment a...Leon, thank you so much for leaving this comment and the information contained in it. Dr. Hansen well knows that we are toast. But, like the rest of us, he still has a modicum of hope that by some miracle we can turn this thing around and save the planet -- at least in some form that will be viable for our descendants. If you read his articles closely and carefully, you will see this expressed; however, in public, he can't say this, exactly.<BR/><BR/>The most recent attempts to include estimates of the CO2, in soils, in climate modelling simulations have been giving even more dire results.<BR/><BR/>So, let us look another way at Livingstone's percentages -- 93% chance of a 2 C rise by 2050 (not 2100), and a 60% chance of a 4 C rise by 2050.<BR/><BR/>I would also venture to guess that we need to go down to 280 ppm, but it is not politic to use that number, yet, instead of 350 ppm.<BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to "delta hoge dijken" in The Netherlands? What is the correct height going to be?<BR/><BR/>What about your neighbours? Don't they have to raise their dykes, too?<BR/><BR/>I mean, Holland is going to be in big big trouble. <BR/><BR/>What is the Dutch government doing about this?<BR/><BR/>You know, my daughter has a Dutch passport because her father is Dutch and she was born in Amsterdam (you can see photos of her on my flickr). I would like her to have the possibility to live there in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579549341020421678.post-74054535164019188502008-11-28T18:16:00.000-06:002008-11-28T18:16:00.000-06:00Thursday I was at a conference about climate chang...Thursday I was at a conference about climate change in Rotterdam. Ken Livingstone wast there.<BR/>He said there is a 7% chance the temperature will not rise more than 2 degrees and 40% that it will not rise by 4 degrees by 2050..<BR/><BR/>Jim Hansen was there as well. He was trying to make people understand that we have to go back to 350ppm CO2 (he didn't say CO2-eq but he noticed that CH4, NxO, ozone etc. have to go down as well).<BR/>Prof. Hansen had an appointment with our parlement in The Hague so left early. I really wanted to ask him some questions so waited for him on his way out.<BR/>When I asked him about the fast rising levels methane and the methane clathrates in the arctic and the aerosols that could be hiding 2.2 degrees of warming he didn't look happy while answering that it is indeed very difficult and the future is uncertain.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10683125984623063867noreply@blogger.com