'The research, published in Csank et al 2011, uses two independent methods to measure Arctic temperature during the Pliocene, on Ellesmere Island. They find that Arctic temperatures were 11 to 16°C warmer. This is consistent with other independent estimates of Arctic temperature at the time. Global temperatures over this period is estimated to be 3 to 4°C warmer than pre-industrial temperatures. Sea levels were around 25 metres higher than current sea level'.
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Sea levels were around 25 metres higher than current sea level
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Where's that interactive map (moving a slider calibrated in metres) which shows the effect of sea level rises? Anyone remember?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
The interactive map that I use only goes to 14 metres above present and that is bad enough for the UK. That probably does for all the nuclear sites bar Trawsgwynnyd (spelling) which is inland on a lake.
And there was me thinking that we might have a beach front property one day. But that would require 90m rise. Maybe great great grandchildren will be able to enjoy that.
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That might be the one, JohnB. Thanks. Pity it doesn't show +25 metres, which is what this thread is about. At +20 metres, the coast would be half a mile from me.
At +30 metres, I would be the coast.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
