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The impacts of even temporary inundation of coastal areas can change the map. In this cyclone 100,000 people are feared dead.
Image source: NASA; Modis imagery.
Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team
NASA Satellite Captures Image of Cyclone Nargis Flooding in Burma
05.06.08

Source: Reuters, April 15, 2008. By Karin Strohecker

World sea levels to rise 1.5m by 2100--scientists

As the climate models start to incorporate dynamic ice characteristics a better picture of the extent of projected sea level rise in the middle term (before 2100) is emerging. This time frame would mean that people born today will potentially live long enough to experience the impacts.

Stuart Candy, from UH Manoa reports on the emerging attempts by citizen artists to mark their environment as a method to show potential local impacts from climate change. He compares the Hawai'ian chalk line to Eve Mosher's work in New York, the projects underway in Seattle and San Francisco, and the lightblueline effort in Santa Barbara.

Mapping C-change

Here is an excerpt.

"So how effective is this type of project in achieving the ends its animators typically have in mind?

NOTE: This effort is an independent action. It fits fully into the lightblueline goal of marking local geographies with the traces of potential future impacts.

Source: AP, January 31, 2008
"HONOLULU (AP) _ High school students have drawn blue chalk lines on Honolulu city sidewalks marking where scientists believe Oahu's high tide will reach after decades of global warming and rising sea levels.

In 50 to 100 years, they expect the Pacific Ocean to shift up to one mile inland from the current shoreline, putting all of Waikiki under water.

The Guardian Unlimited reports: Sourcec: Reuters Thursday January 31 2008

Latest scientists' views of sea level rise

Sea level rise prediction estimates are running toward the top limit and beyond the IPCC predictions.

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Source: The Australian, Leigh Dayton, Science writer, January 15, 2008

New data from the NASA GRACE mission satellite shows that ice melt at the edges of the Antarctic is accelerating, and outpacing the build-up of snow in the interior.

Antarctica's ice melting faster

Below is an excerpt from this press story:

"THE most comprehensive study to date of Antarctica's ice confirms growing concern that the ice cap is melting faster than predicted.

In this still from the film "Ruthless People" (Silver Screen Partners II, 1986), the building at the end of the Santa Monica Pier is adorned by a very large version of the same design as that chosen for the lightblueline. The elevation is a bit off... more like 30 feet.

Source: The Independent (UK), December 28, 2007

By: Michael McCarthy

The Year in Review: The planet

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No denying the cold, hard facts