US cities to sink under rising seas

• Autores: Michael Le Page
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3043, 2015, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • According to an earlier study by Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute in Germany, every 1°C of warming will lead to a rise in sea level of roughly 2.3 meters over the next 2000 years. Now Benjamin Strauss, Levermann and their colleagues have updated this study and worked out what it means for the US. Half their scenarios assume that the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses, as several recent studies suggest is now inevitable. If that happens, humans will experience nearly 5 meters of sea level rise. This figure will rise even higher if they don't curb their emissions--in line with what an analysis by New Scientist concluded earlier this year.