From a Yahoo News Article:
Worldwide sea levels may rise by about 2.6 to 6.6 feet by 2100 thanks to global warming, but dire predictions of larger increases seem unrealistic, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.
They examined scenarios for loss of ice from Greenland, Antarctica and the world’s smaller glaciers and ice caps into the world’s oceans, as well as ocean expansion simply due to rising water temperatures.
Their calculations yielded estimates for global sea level increases by the end of the century that are lower than many existing projections, but alarming nonetheless.
“If you look at the actual mechanics of how glaciers work, there doesn’t seem to be a realistic way that we know about to get more than about 2 meters of sea level rise in the next century,” Tad Pfeffer of the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, whose study was published in the journal Science, said in a telephone interview.
The Article:
http://news.yahoo.com/story//nm/20080904/sc_nm/climate_oceans_dc
Richard Pace 