2100... & it`s water, water everywhere!

Scientists now say that sea level is likely to rise perhaps three feet by 2100 - an increase that, should it come to pass, would pose a threat to coastal regions the world over.
The rise would put thousands of square miles of the American coastline under water and would displace millions of people in Asia.

How fast is the world`s ice going to melt? Scientists long believed that
the collapse of the gigantic ice sheets in Greenland and Antartica would take thousands of years, with sea level possibly rising as little as seven inches in this century, about the same amount as in the 20th century.

But researchers have recently been startled to see big changes unfold in both Greenland and Antartica, As a result of recent calculations that take the changes into account, may scientists now say that sea level is likely to rise perhaps three feet by 2100--an increase that, should it come o pass, would pose a threat to coastal regions the world over. And the calculations suggest that the rise could conceivably exceed six feet, which would put thousands of square miles of the American coastline under water and would probably displace tens of millions of people in Asia.