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Major Sea Rise ‘Now Inevitable’

Major Sea Rise ‘Now Inevitable’

Minimum rise of 10 inches to occur regardless of climate action, scientists find.
     Research based on satellite measurements of ice losses from Greenland and the shape of the ice cap from 2000-19 has allowed scientists to calculate how the climate crisis has pushed
By The Guardian
8-30-22
the ice sheet from an equilibrium where snowfall matches the ice lost.

They found that a minimum 10.6in sea-level rise is inevitable regardless of action to limit carbon emissions after 110tn tonnes of the Greenland ice cap melted. A multi-metre sea-level rise also appears likely as the trajectory of environmental damage continues.

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