That melting phenomenon is expected to lead to significant,
unavoidable sea rise over centuries.
Not exact matches
Sea levels are
rising around the world, and the latest satellite data suggests that three feet (one meter) or more is
unavoidable in the next 100 - 200 years, NASA scientists said Wednesday.
Some effects of human - caused global warm - ing are now
unavoidable, but is it inevitable that
sea level
rise of many meters is locked in, and, if so, on what timescale?
We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter
sea level
rise practically
unavoidable and likely to occur this century.
One of the
unavoidable realities attending global warming — a reality that makes it the perfect problem — is that there is plenty of remaining uncertainty, even as the basics have grown ever firmer (my litany: more CO2 = warmer world = less ice =
rising seas and lots of climate shifts).
If we arbitrarily limit our time horizon to 2100 a significant amount of
sea level
rise is essentially
unavoidable even with severe emission cuts.
«A
sea level
rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2100 may already be
unavoidable even in a scenario of deep emissions cuts — we estimate that this could inundate 2000 square kilometers in Bangladesh, which is 1.6 percent of the country and would affect 2.5 million people.
We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter
sea level
rise practically
unavoidable andlikely to occur this century.
Some of the language cited in this story is not included in the full paper, including the phrase: «We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter
sea level
rise practically
unavoidable and likely to occur this century.»
Avhengig av leserens ståsted, her er lavmålet (eller høydepunktet) fra rapportens 66 sider: «We conclude that continued high emissions will make multi-meter
sea level
rise practically
unavoidable and likely to occur this century.