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Yes, there is, if you avoid the petrochemicals-funded loonies. We are probably heading for about 3º–4º C of warming this century, which very strongly implies a
by lproven 4y ago
Yes, there is, if you avoid the petrochemicals-funded loonies.
We are probably heading for about 3º–4º C of warming this century, which very strongly implies an ice-free Arctic and the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. That alone suggests circa 5 metres of sea level rise, and Greenland will add more.
Isostatic rebound like this will be less than a rounding error in the overall picture.
- elygre 4y agoIf i read the article right, they expect another 40 meters of uplift. Not a rounding error, I think.
- lproven 4y agoNote the timescales! Over millennia. I'm talking about 5-6-7 metres sea level rise in the lifetime of most posters and commenters on HN. In the next 70-odd years. That renders a few cm uplift in the 21st century an utter irrelevance. Stockholm won't be inaccessible by sea; it will be seabed. If we have 4ºC rise this century, there won't be anyone left to write about it. 4ºC in a century is species-extinction level event.