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Will anthropogenic CO2 emissions catastrophically increase sea levels?

Topics: Global Warming Science Climatology

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If the ice over Greenland melted, the ocean would rise 6 meters, which would be devastating for populations living close to sea-level.

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Environmentalist, Former U.S. Vice President

The Arctic is experiencing faster melting. If this were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet.

19 Jun 2006 Source

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPCC, Scientific Body formed by U.N.

Global sea level is projected to rise during the 21st century at a greater rate than during 1961 to 2003. Under the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) A1B scenario by the mid-2090s, for instance, global sea level reaches 0.22 to 0.44 m above 1990 levels, and is rising at about 4 mm yr–1.

01 Jan 2008 Source

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Glaciologist

If Arctic ice should melt, the sea level will not change because the volume of water created by melting ice is equal to the volume of water that ice displaces when floating.... A rise of 3-6 degrees Celsius over the next century promised by pessimists could not have a significant influence on the Antarctic, where the av. temperature is less than -40 C.

27 May 2007 Source