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Climate Change to Continue to Year 3000 Among the predicted, unstoppable effects is a 13-foot rise in sea levels by the year 3000, a study finds.

Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe’s alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four meters (13 feet) by the year 3000 through melting the West Antarctic ice sheet, two studies published on Sunday said.

The research places the spotlight on two of the least understood aspects of climate change: how, when and where warming will affect glaciers on which many millions depend for their water, and the problems faced by generations in the far distant future.

Full Story: http://news.discovery.com/earth/climate-change-thousand-years-110110.html

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2 Environment Rules Halted in New Mexico by Governor Martinez

Governor Martinez http://www.governor.state.nm.us/about.html , who received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from oil and gas interests, has also said that she does not believe that science has clearly established a link between climate change and human activity.

By FELICITY BARRINGER

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/us/07emit.html?_r=1

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