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Rising sea levels of 1.8 meters in worst-case scenario, researchers calculate
2014-10-14 18:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The climate is getting warmer, the ice sheets are melting and sea levels are rising -- but how much? The report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013 was based on the best available estimates of future sea levels, but the panel was not able to come up with an upper limit for sea level rise within this century. Now researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and their colleagues have calculated the risk for a worst-case scenario. The results indicate that at worst, the...
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