Global sea-level rise began accelerating ‘30 years earlier’ than previously thought.
Global sea-level rise began to accelerate in the 1960s, 30 years earlier than suggested by previous assessments, a new study finds.
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, introduces a new technique to more accurately determine historical global sea levels by combining two different statistical approaches.
It was found that the southern hemisphere, home to many developing small island nations, experienced the majority of the observed sea-level rise, lead author Dr. Sönke Dangendorf tells Carbon Brief.
Communities across the US are now threatened by rising sea-levels. With global warming refuted and opposed by the Trump administration, will climate change create another major refugee crisis?
There are islands in the Chesapeake Bay that have already succumbed to sea level rise, one of them is Holland Island.
Even in a best case scenario, the consensus is that we’ll get at least two feet of sea level rise by the year 2100.
One big question is: What will happen when flooding gets worse and worse and people decide there’s no hope for them anymore to live in their respective towns.
Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian whose stories on science, technology, and nature have appeared in a host of national magazines. Since 2003 he has worked mainly as a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest is The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future.
