Dear Editor:
It's good news that provincial and municipal officials are beginning to take the effects of global climate change into account in planning (Climate Change Threatens NV Mud Flats, Aug. 26, North Shore News), although the predicted one-metre rise in sea level this century is a conservative estimate.
Since we aren't taking effective measures to try to prevent climate change, however, it should be remembered that the effects will continue to increase after this century. If we should some day succeed in completely melting all of the glaciers plus the ice sheets that cover most of Greenland and Antarctica, the predicted sea level rise would be 68.5 metres. To get a sense of what that would mean, stand at the corner of Lonsdale Avenue and Keith Road and imagine everything you see below you under water.
Michael Doherty North Vancouver
