Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by aquarium87 1205 days ago
I'm impressed they kept the doom and gloom and BS to a minimum. Let's be clear: this is a nothing burger.

If humans do NOTHING, the melting of artic and Iceland ice sheets will provide an average of 7.7mm of sea level rise over the next 130 years.

1m is nothing compared to the 120m sea level has risen from 19000bc to 6000bc [1]

That's 13000 years at an average of 9.23mm per year.

We are currently expected to rise 300-1000mm over the next 80 years.

That equals 3.75-12.5mm per year. [2] And it's all in the future, magically it's never here.

[1]https://noc.ac.uk/news/global-sea-level-rise-end-last-ice-ag...

[2]https://ocean.si.edu/through-time/ancient-seas/sea-level-ris...