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STANLEY FELDMAN

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The ice caps are melting and will cause a 6-metre rise in the level of the seas.

OF ALL THE SCARE STORIES about global warming, it is the rise in sea levels and the fear of flooding of low-lying lands and islands due to melting of the global ice cap that have caused most alarm. Figures presented as likely scenarios have suggested a rise of from 20cm (7.9in) (suggested by the IPCC in 2001) to 6 metres (20ft) (suggested by Al Gore in his 2007 film, An Inconvenient Truth) in the level of the oceans by the end of the century. Any rise in the sea level will depend on global warming causing the melting of huge amounts of land-based ice and dumping it into the sea at a rate greater than that at which it evaporates. It is appropriate, therefore, to question just what is happening to the global ice caps, where most of the ice is found, and what is happening to the level of the oceans, so as to determine whether there is a real cause for panic.