2018 Carbon Dioxide Sea Level 
Scientific American
JUNE 17, 2025
If the entire Greenland ice sheet melted, global sea levels would rise by about 24 feet. The NEGIS is how a good deal of that planet-altering flood would enter the sea. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere then was less than 300 parts per million. Upended and laid atop the contiguous U.S.,
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 17, 2025
It shows, for example, that both the strength and rapid intensification of hurricanes are increasing, that the intensity and duration of drought and extreme precipitation are increasing , that sea level rise and coastal flooding are increasing , and that wildfires are increasing in frequency and size.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2023
By comparing these two data sets, scientists can determine the probability that human activities are responsible for observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and other climate change indicators. A study of a 2018 South African drought found that climate change made it three times more likely.
Legal Planet
JUNE 4, 2021
What’s most remarkable is that the decision calls for a 45% reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions–of not only its own but also those of its customers–within less than a decade. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C First, who can stand as a plaintiff?
Real Climate
AUGUST 12, 2021
Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is the most important greenhouse gas that we have added to the atmosphere, however, some of it has been absorbed by land and oceans. The global mean sea level has increased by 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, and the rate of increase has accelerated and is now about 3.7 mm increase every year.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. The paper sets out an agenda for research into ways to limit glacial ice-sheet deterioration and associated sea level rise. Open Arctic sea lanes dramatically shorten shipping times from China to Europe.
Real Climate
AUGUST 25, 2023
So the Ditlevsens used sea surface temperatures (SST) in a region between the tip of Greenland and Britain as an indicator, based on Caesar et al. 2018 ( PDF ; I’m a coauthor on that paper). We have direct AMOC measurements only since 2004, a time span too short for this type of study. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.
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