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Interview: Leaving our Descendants A Whopping Increase in Sea Levels
2013-07-24 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Last week, a group of scientists led by Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research released a paper that made a stark forecast: For every 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the world will eventually experience a 2.3-meter increase in sea level. That means that should carbon emissions continue to rise at or near current rates, and temperatures soar 4 to 5 degrees C in the next century or two, the world could well experience sea level increases of many meters -- dozens...
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