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New York to face superstorms every two years

Recent analysis by scientists of ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica suggests that a rise of 4 foot in sea levels is likely by the 2080s.

Klaus Jacob, a research scientist at Columbia University, told Scientific American magazine that by 2100 "it will be five feet, plus or minus one foot".

Market blinds us to dangers of climate change - World Economy News | Latest Trends & Markets | The Irish Times - Wed, May 15, 2013

Prof Sir Brian Hoskins, director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College in London, notes that when the concentrations were last this high, “the world was warmer on average by three or four degrees Celsius than it is today.

There was no permanent ice sheet on Greenland, sea levels were much higher, and the world was a very different place, although not all of these differences may be directly related to CO2 levels.”

The inexorable march to climate change – Blog – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

we have 25 years - the term of most Australian mortgages - to transform human civilisation to something which is a net emitter of no, or very little, CO2.