Hopefully we'll figure it out long before this.

Hopefully we'll figure it out long before this.

Originally shared by Ron Dobbs

New work from an international team including Carnegie's Ken Caldeira demonstrates that the planet's remaining fossil fuel resources would be sufficient to melt nearly all of Antarctica if burned, leading to a 50- or 60-meter (160 to 200 foot) rise in sea level. Because so many major cities are at or near sea level, this would put many highly populated areas where more than a billion people live under water, including New York City and Washington, DC. It is published in Science Advances.
http://phys.org/news/2015-09-fossil-fuel-meter-sea.html