Sentences with phrase «levels over the next few centuries»

In 2013, he made headlines when a magazine reported his conclusion that a seventy - foot rise in sea levels over the next few centuries was probably already «baked into the system.»

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Glaciologists have long worried that the West Antarctic ice sheet will collapse over the next few centuries, raising sea levels dramatically.

Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.

Sea levels over the past few hundred years have been rising by around 8 inches per century, so the Sea level around New York City will rise by about a foot over the next hundred years, and this has nothing to do with global warming.

According to the NYTimes blog Green Inc., the Dutch are designing floating cities to replace or augment land - based cities as the global sea level rises over the next few centuries.

If the temperature rise is lower, the sea level will rise one and a half feet, and if temperatures are driven higher by our inaction over the next few years, sea level rise will be almost five feet by 2100 (and continue rising in subsequent centuries).

-- but to get a better understanding of how much and how fast the sea level will rise over the next few centuries.

The best possible outcome right now, Rahmstorf said, is that we stabilize temperatures and that sea level rise happened at a steady rate over the next few centuries, and not accelerate.