dickmilde -- at .75 mm/yr for 141 years (1842-1982) plus (just) 1 mm/yr for the 28 years since, that's 133.75 mm, or 5.26" of sea level rise -- and there are quite non-trivial melts that weren't expected occurring now, north (Greenland) and south (Antarctica), that weren't before -- with the potential for multi-meter rises, perhaps a lot quicker than had been thought/surmised might be the case earlier -- that's one thing about suddenly melting/moving ice where it had been stable/static before; now we're seeing it happen, getting the opportunity to study the process in action -- as a result, a now rapidly advancing area of study -- new data coming in and new papers and studies coming out all the time -- from one recent report ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/science/earth/14ice.html [ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/science/earth/14ice.html?pagewanted=all ] [ http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56716873 ]):