Antarctic is melting faster than thought.

This article appeared on page 14A (back page) of the St. Petersburg Times on Thursday, February 26, 2009. GENEVA - Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area then previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday. Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations indicate it is more widespread. By the end of the century, the accelerated melting could cause sea levels to climb by 3 to 5 feet-levels substantially higher than predicted just two years ago.

When my manuscript "The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth" was written in 1998-2007, I predicted at the end of Chapter 1 that sea levels could rise 3-5 feet worldwide and submerge cities along all coastlines throughout the world. Scientists predict this will happen by the end of the century. If NASA and the other 45 countries continue launching satellites at an average of every 2.7 days, I predict that the 3-5 feet sea level rise will occur by 2030, not 2099 as predicted by the scientists of 60 countries.