Saturday, August 29th, 2015

Expert: We’re ‘locked-in’ to 3 feet sea level rise

Author: Brandon Miller
Source: CNN
Publication Date: 5:03 PM ET, Thu August 27, 2015
Link: Expert: We’re ‘locked-in’ to 3 feet sea level rise

Stephan: It is pretty certain now that by the end of the century the world's great coastal cities will be largely destroyed.

Washington, D.C. with projected sea rise, tan areas are those going underwater.
Credit: skepticalscience

It was less than two years ago that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its all-encompassing assessment on the current state of climate change research and made projections for the future climate of our planet.

According to the latest from NASA, however, the projections the panel made for a rise in global sea levels of 1 to 3 feet may already be outdated.

According to Steven Nerem of the University of Colorado, we are “locked into at least 3 feet of sea level rise, and probably more.”

Nerem said experts now think a rise in sea levels toward “the higher end of that range is more likely, and the question remains how that range might have to shift upwards

This is startling news if you are one of the 150 million people on […]

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