Monday, May 7, 2007

Sea level rise

One of the important effects that people should know and try to solve it because it may reduce the rate of earth and the earth will be more smaller is the increasing the sea level.
Sea level has risen around 130m (400 feet) since the peak of the last ice age about 18,000 years ago. Most of the rise occurred before 6,000 years ago. From 3,000 years ago to the start of the 19th century sea level was almost constant, rising at 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr. Since 1900 the level has risen at 1 to 2 mm/yr; since 1992 satellite altimetry from TOPEX/Poseidon indicates a rate of raise about 3 mm/yr. that’s mean that every century the sea level rise and that is bad for our planet.

1 comment:

Saeed A. AL-KAABI said...

Helloo there ...

Today I learned something new about one of the effects..

Do you now that in the last 100 years the sea level rised from 4 to 8 feet..