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The recent ice-melt observations and other recent data interpretations are hitting the scientific literature.

The climate of the near future appears to resemble the climate from long ago, a time when the oceans were a lot larger than they are today...

This is from:

Science 24 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5768, pp. 1747 - 1750
DOI: 10.1126/science.1115159

"Sea-level rise from melting of polar ice sheets is one of the largest potential threats of future climate change. Polar warming by the year 2100 may reach levels similar to those of 130,000 to 127,000 years ago that were associated with sea levels several meters above modern levels; both the Greenland Ice Sheet and portions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet may be vulnerable. The record of past ice-sheet melting indicates that the rate of future melting and related sea-level rise could be faster than widely thought."

You can read the whole article at:
Science 24
Here's another link to the same information:
Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-Sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-Level Rise