Climate Impacts Could Get a Lot Worse
“Sea level rise could be worse than feared, warn researchers!”
The title may be eye-catching, but the science is real.
Some researchers think climate change models are underweighting the worst-case scenario. The University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute thinks that we could see as much as 1.35 meters of global sea-level rise by 2100, under a worst-case warming scenario.
This research is based in part on what prior carbon records show. Current and projected carbon levels haven’t been seen this high since the Earth was a much warmer and wetter place.
What complicates this is knowing exactly how much sea levels will rise as ice and snow melt. There is a lot of complicated science that explains the water cycle. We don’t fully understand how quickly melt will translate to coastal flooding. Regardless though, the science is clear that things could get a lot worse than we think.
