Monday, January 21, 2013

Hmm: Without comment, Michael Mann points us to a CNN article that suggests Mann agrees that "rising ocean level rates may be exceeding our worst expectations"

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Quoted in @CNN article "See ...
Quoted in article "See them before they're gone: 5 urgent experiences for 2013"
See them before they're gone: 5 urgent experiences for 2013 | CNN Travel
Save the Maldives (or at least see them)
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Oceans have risen by about eight inches since 1870, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the pace is only picking up say top climate scientists.
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New reports that rising ocean level rates may be exceeding our worst expectations -- “”We are decades ahead of schedule,” IPCC scientist Michael Mann recently told the Guardian -- come in the wake of an announcement by former Maldivian president Mohammed Nasheed that the Maldives will become carbon neutral by 2020.

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