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A team of scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now provides a method to quantify monetary losses from coastal floods under sea - level rise.
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«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.
Writing in Nature Climate Change, two scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) say the melting of quite a small volume of ice on the East Antarctic shore could ultimately trigger a discharge of ice into the ocean which would result in unstoppable sea - level rise for thousands of years ahead.
He is a leader at the renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PIK; an Adjunct Scientist at Columbia University in New York; the Lead Author of the latest IPCC chapter on Sea Level Change; journal editor, and more.
Recent independent analyses of current mitigation proposals on the table in Copenhagen by Nicholas Stern, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecofys, Climate Analytics, the Sustainability Institute (C - ROADS), the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks (Project Catalyst), all point to the same conclusion: the negotiations must deliver the high end of current proposals and stretch beyond them, if the world is to have a reasonable chance of containing warming to below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, or the 1.5 °C goal of many developing nations.
According to data compiled by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Brazil's emissions had only fallen to 1.4 bn tonnes CO2 equivalent (CO2e) by 2012, a 32 % drop on 2005 levels.)
By PIK: 07/15/2013 — Greenhouse gases emitted today will cause sea level to rise for centuries to come.
Sea - level rise too big to be pumped away From the POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (PIK)
«The magnitude of sea - level rise is so enormous, it turns out it is unlikely that any engineering approach imaginable can mitigate it,» concludes co-author Anders Levermann, head of Global Adaptation Strategies at PIK and scientist at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.