Canute By The Sea

Another scientist is worrying about an 'underestimation' of sea level rises due to global warming. Professor Rahmstorf thinks that by 2100 sea levels might be 0.5-1.4m above 1990 levels, compared to an IPCC estimate in 2001 of 9-88cm. My unscientific guess would be that Professor Rahmstorf is still too low, and too late, but that he's headed in the right direction. I'll continue to keep track of such estimates as I'm quite interested in getting a better idea of when Washington DC begins to flood. (Hokusai, btw, is one of my favorite artists—I even have a small, quite unimportant but nevertheless stylish Hokusai print that I bought when a student at the University of Chicago.)