| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/16, 8:45 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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CORVALLIS, Oregon, July 15, 2013 (ENS) – Global sea levels will rise about 2.3 meters, or 7.5 feet, for every degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) that the planet warms over the next several
thousand years, finds new research that combines all the major causes of sea level rise.
This international study is one of the first to combine analyses of the four major contributors to potential sea level rise into a collective estimate, and compare it with evidence of past sea-level
responses to global temperature changes.
Scientists say the four major contributors to sea-level rise on a global scale are: melting of glaciers, melting of the Greenland ice sheet, melting of the Antarctic ice sheet, and expansion of the ocean
itself as it warms. Several past studies have examined each of these components, the authors of this study say, but this is an early attempt to merge the four different analyses into a single projection. The study, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is published in the current issue of the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.”
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 Homes in West Palm Beach, Florida are built at sea level (Photo by Netherlands Diplomatic Missions in the USA)
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