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Global warming could cause 70 feet rise in sea level

In the journal, Geology, according to a research published this week the world is still going to be completely different for the future generations even though we manage to keep the global warming at the mark of two degrees as recommended by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The sea levels will be 40 to 70 feet higher in future than the present levels.

Global Sea Level Likely to Rise as Much as 70 Feet in Future Generations

Kenneth Miler of Rutgers University leading a team of scientists came to this conclusion after studying samples of soil and rock cores taken in New Zealand, Virginia and the Eniwetok Atoll in the northern Pacific. The team looked 2.7 million to 3.2 million years back at the late Pliocene epoch when the level of carbon dioxide in atmosphere was same as present and the atmospheric temperatures were two degrees Celsius higher than today.

According to Miller, centuries to millennium would be taken by these large ice sheets to melt so it’s not that you need to sell your beach estate yet but when it happens 70 percent of the world’s population will be affected since world’s coasts would be swamped due to such rise in the modern oceans. Presently in 21st century, according to current trajectory, two to three feet of global rise of sea level is expected due to warming of ocean and partial melting of mountain glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica. He also added that the sensitivity of great ice sheets of earth to change in temperature is highlighted in the results implying that there will be a big scale increase in sea level if there is even a modest increase in temperature.

Via: NSF

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