Smeltend ijs en hoger waternivo

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Hoe houden onze kinderen droge voeten?
Eindje lopen of klimmen?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/06/antarctic-ice-melt-would-shift-earths-axis-further-changing-sea-level/
The collapse of an ice sheet in West Antarctica would not only threaten
coastal areas of North America and nations in the southern Indian Ocean,
but would also cause a shift in the earth’s rotation axis, researchers
report in Science.

If the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) collapses and melts, as some
scientists feel is likely due to global warming, the earth’s rotation
would shift an approximate 500 meters from its current position. Rather
than cause a uniform rise in sea level, this would result in a 30 percent
greater increase in certain areas—about 21 feet for Washington, D.C., for
example, compared with the uniform 16 to 17 feet already predicted. The
researchers say the melting would change the balance of the globe in much
the same way that tsunamis move huge amounts of water from one area to
another

https://www.cresis.ku.edu/research/data/sea_level_rise/google_earth_links.html
- Sea Level Rise Maps and GIS Data
The goal of this research was to simulate a theoretical global sea level
rise of one to six meters with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and
to develop multiple products for visualizing the inundation and its
effects, including static maps, map animations, and layers viewable in
Google Earth.
- View sea level rise in Google Earth
- View map animation of sea level rise

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