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Article: Global sea levels set to rise above IPCC forecast.(Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change)(Brief article)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Warming temperatures and melting ice caps will cause average global sea levels to rise much higher than the forecasts published in the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments, according to new research.
Using computer models that linked temperatures with data on sea levels for the past 2,000 years, Finnish oceanographer Svetlana Jevrejeva, from the Proudman Oceanographical Laboratory in Liverpool, predicted that global sea levels could rise by up to 1.5 metres by the end of the century--significantly higher than the ...