Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all
of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel
of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the
remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural
habitats as well as for hundreds
of thousands
of people.