Thursday, 28 June 2012

Significant sea-level rise in a two degree warming world

Significant sea-level rise in a two degree warming world: Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 27, 2012



The study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on scenarios for future greenhouse-gas emissions.

"Sea-level rise is a hard to quantify, yet critical risk of climate change," says Michiel Schaeffer of Climate Analytics and Wageningen University, lead author of the study. "Due to the l