Not exact matches
The report's authors, who also include scientists from federal agencies, Columbia University and the South Florida Water Management District,
concluded that evidence supports a «worst - case»
global average sea -
level rise of about 8.2 feet by 2100.
Indeed, the most recent IPCC report
concluded that the
sea -
level rise contribution associated such an event «can not be precisely quantified,» but would contribute «several tenths of a meter» of
global average sea -
level rise by 2100.
They
conclude that while the rate of increase of
average global surface temperatures has slowed since 1998, melting of Arctic ice,
rising sea levels, and warming oceans have continued apace.
Despite the surge in CO2 concentrations since 1900, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has
concluded that
global sea levels only
rose by an
average of 1.7 mm / yr during the entire 1901 - 2010 period, which is a rate of just 0.17 of a meter per century.
As Media Matters has noted, the IPCC's 2007 «Synthesis Report»
concluded that» [w] arming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in
global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and
rising global average sea level» and that» [m] ost of the observed increase in
global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely [defined in the report as a» > 90 %» probability] due to the observed increase in anthropogenic [human - caused] GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations.»
The IPCC has already
concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the
global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in
global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further
global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events;
rise in
sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.