Friday, November 2, 2012

Sea-Level Rise Projections Ignored Critical Feedbacks, Researcher Says

Yale Environment 360: A U.S. researcher says projected sea-level rise over the next century has been underestimated because current models fail to consider several critical feedbacks that might accelerate rising seas in the coming decades. While the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that global sea levels could rise 0.2 to 0.5 meters by 2100, current projections suggest that seas could rise a meter or more. One of the factors ignored by earlier models, says University of Colorado geologist...

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/sea-level_rise_projections_ignored_critical_feedbacks_researcher_says/3683/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29

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