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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

In an era when massive heat domes blanket large swaths of continents for days, wildfires burn through areas the size of small countries, and hurricanes regularly push the limits of what we once thought possible, sea level rise can seem like extreme weather’s low-key cousin. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Sea level rise is a big deal Use, abuse and misuse of the CMIP6 ensemble The radiative forcing bar chart has gone full circle Droughts and floods are complicated Don’t mention the hiatus. Sea Level Rise: The previous IPCC reports, notably AR4 and AR5 (to a lesser extent) , have had a hard time dealing with SLR.

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Delayed harm and the politics of climate change, reconsidered

Legal Planet

But what happens when we achieve the goal of zero carbon dioxide emissions from human actions? Does the climate keep warming, stay the same, or even cool? It turns out this is a critical question for understanding what carbon budgets we have in terms of emissions, if we seek to meet temperature thresholds like 2 degrees Celsius.

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Deciphering the ‘SPM AR6 WG1’ code

Real Climate

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. In addition, ozone depletion higher up in the stratosphere has caused a cooling high up in the atmosphere. This is likely an effect of man-made climate change.

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Arctic Futures: White Shield or Blue Economy

Legal Planet

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. These impacts particularly disrupt the lives and livelihoods of Arctic Indigenous Peoples.

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The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?

Real Climate

If the AMOC weakens, this region will cool. And in fact it is cooling – it’s the only region on Earth which has cooled since preindustrial times. that the sea surface temperature there in winter is a good index of AMOC strength, based on a high-resolution climate model. From Rahmstorf and Ganopolski 1999.

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Analysis: How fast can we stop Earth from warming??

A Greener Life

The radiators are, in fact, cooling down, but their stored heat is still warming the air in the room. But that doesn’t mean the planet returns to its preindustrial climate or that we avoid disruptive effects such as sea-level rise. The radiators warm up and heat the air in the room. This is known as committed warming.