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Sea level

BOULDER, Colo. -- Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the…
A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most…
The rewards of being right about climate change are bittersweet. James Hansen should know this better than most — he warned of this whole thing…
More people live close to sea coast than earlier estimated, assess researchers in a new study. These people are the most vulnerable to the rise…
A dusty film of pollution is muting the reflective whiteness of Greenland’s pristine icecap and making it vulnerable to accelerated melting rates. Greenland is getting…
Damages from extreme events like floods are even more relevant than the mean sea level itself when it comes to the costs of climate impacts…
PARIS, 9 December, 2015 – Some of the world’s coldest places, on land and sea, may be plunged into an unstoppable transition to a climate…
An alarming new study [3] has found that, no matter what we do to fight climate change, it is already too late for more than 400 U.S. cities [4] — including…
When you fill a sink, the water rises at the same rate to the same height in every corner. That's not the way it works…
Highly speculative. Full of conjecture. Based on flimsy evidence. Not supported by mainstream science. Not peer reviewed. Not suitable for basing policy on. It sounds…
Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may…
If a new scientific paper is proven accurate, the international target of limiting global temperatures to a 2°C rise this century will not be nearly…