Sentences with phrase «avoid sea level rise of several meters»

«If the southern ocean forcing (subsurface warming) of the Antarctic ice sheets continues to grow, it likely will become impossible to avoid sea level rise of several meters, with the largest uncertainty being how rapidly it will occur,» the report states.

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Barring a sainthood's worth of major miracles, I don't see how we avoid several meters (5 to 10 +) of sea level rise by 2200.
This is followed by the claim that to avoid things like reduced agricultural production and several meters of rise in sea level, «our net annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century.»
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