Climate scientist studies ancient shorelines
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 15:31
in Earth & Climate
The seas are rising, as they have during past periods of warming in earths history. Estimates of how high they will go in the next few thousand years range from five meters, putting greater Miami underwater, to 40 meters, wiping most of Florida off the map. The range of estimates is huge to the point of meaninglessness, says Maureen Mo Raymo, a climate scientist at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.