Sea levels to continue to rise for 500 years? Long-term climate calculations suggest so
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 17 October, 2011
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Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global warming. But how frightening times are we facing? Researchers have now calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of the atmosphere using climate models and have some startling predictions....