Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
However, on the level of basic physical reasoning, it is of course a no-brainer that warming will cause land-ice to melt (and melt faster as it gets hotter) and ocean waters to expand, so sea-level rise is the inevitable result. We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.
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