CANADA: It’s one of the most important questions on the planet: How much are the seas ultimately going to rise, thanks to what we’re doing to the atmosphere with all our cars and power plants? Scientists are still struggling to find a clear answer to it.
But a new scientific analysis, just out in the journal Science by researchers led by Andrea Dutton of the University of Florida — and including a large team of scientists from the United States, Britain, and Germany — gives a pretty clear sense of what’s at stake. The new assessment compares the current state of the planet with three other warm periods from the Earth’s deep past that are, to varying degrees, comparable with where we may now be steering things.
And the punchline is that in each of these periods within the last 3 million years or so, the researchers estimate that sea levels eventually rose some 6 meters — equivalent to nearly 20 feet — higher than they are right now.
Pakistan to get $3b loan from Islamic Trade Financing Corporation
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