Sentences with phrase «meters over several centuries»
For example, the weakening of the THC under 1 degree of warming, a risk of collapse for 3 degrees, risk of irreversible melting of the Greenland Ice sheet at 2 degrees warming, sea level changes of 5 — 12 meters over several centuries, — these eventualities are debatable, and should certainly be viewed as the «adverse tail» of possible impacts.
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«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»
Over an area of about a quarter acre, we needed to remove not only the 19th - century backfill but also the rubble from cave collapses that had filled several deep natural cavities to a depth of more than four meters.
What they found was that local destabilization of the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica ultimately causes the entire ice sheet to fall into the ocean over several centuries to several thousands of years, gradually adding 3 meters to global sea levels, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.
Over several centuries, without serious mitigation efforts we may expect several meters of sea level rise.
The potential consequences of warming include widespread famine, triggered by extreme drought in the major grain - producing areas of the world; the wholesale disappearance of the world's coral reefs; and sea levels rising by several meters over the course of a few centuries.»
The movie's animation of the impacts of sea level rise seemed to show the flooding effects of a several meter rise, which IPCC (2001) indicates as a possibility over several centuries.