What would a 7 metre rise in sea levels in the next 100 years mean for Williamstown.....?  The Greenland ice mass could be the beginning of an inevitable process worldwide with the increased temperatures of climate change. The development of the Former Port Phillip Woollen Mill Site could be a big investment in a “temporary” building!

The Age

Suzanne Goldenberg, Washington
August 12, 2010 - 3:00AM

“THE entire ice mass of Greenland will disappear if temperatures rise by as little as 2 degrees, with severe consequences for the rest of the world, a panel of scientists has warned the US Congress.

Greenland shed its largest chunk of ice in nearly half-a-century last week, and faces an even grimmer future, according to Richard Alley, a geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University.

''Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive,'' Professor Alley told a briefing in Congress, adding a rise in the range of 2 to 7 degrees would mean the obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet.

The fall-out would be felt thousands of kilometres from the Arctic, unleashing a global sea-level rise of seven metres, he warned. Low-lying cities such as New Orleans would vanish. ''What is going on in the Arctic now is the biggest and fastest thing that nature has ever done,'' he said.......

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