Comments - New Scientist Environment: Sea level not just ice problem
By Blair Anderson
Fri Aug 03 02:47:18 BST 2007
The changing density of sea water due to salinity and temperature is likely to invoke changes that are equally profound as the 'melt' itself. Thermo-expansion of the oceans will be slow, the absorbortion of heat hysteresis being measured in centuries. Reversing the trend would take millenia. Expansion could account for additional 5-20m sealevel rise over the longer period compounding on existing melt estimates today. It would make collective consensus/political will to ameliorate sealevel rise highly improbable as no immediate benefit would acrue.
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