Sea levels around the world are rising faster than current models predicted, according to a new study by a group of European researchers. A result of warming temperatures and climate change, the rising sea levels could result in massive coastal flooding and property damage.
The new study was just published in Ocean Science, the journal of the European Geosciences Union. It considered more data to revise previous estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that predicted that seal levels will rise about 39 inches by the end of this century. That prediction was based on data going back 150 years.
The new study went back farther, considering date for several centuries. And it suggests that sea levels will rise an additional ten inches by the end of the century if carbon emissions are not curbed and the earth continues to heat.
“The models we are basing our predictions of sea-level rise on presently are not sensitive enough,” said Aslak Grinsted, a geophysicist at the University of Copenhagen and a co-author of the new research. “To put it plainly, they don’t hit the mark when we compare them to the rate of sea-level rise we see when comparing future scenarios with observations going back in time.”
The revised estimates would affect 40 percent of the world’s population who live near coastlines. The additional rise in sea level would result in more floods, superstorms and tidal surges.
Another recent study said that ice melting from two glaciers in Antarctica, Pine Island and Thwaites, has already contributed to a five percent rise in global sea level. Now those glaciers are on the verge of breaking apart, which would add much more water to the world’s oceans. Read more:
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