Abstract
Eelco Rohling focuses on the meticulous sea-level research at Southampton University's School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES) about the rising sea level. The work suggests that sea levels may rise twice as quickly as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) worst-case prediction, or even faster. Estimates of the potential sea-level rise contributions from the great ice sheets support this possibility. The team at SOES produced the first ever continuous record of sea-level change through the last 520,000 years. This period covers five complete ice-age cycles, with global sea-level fluctuations between -130m and +10m, relative to the present-day level. Modern carbon dioxide changes are dominated by anthropogenic emissions, but the greenhouse-gas properties of carbon dioxide remain the same. Tide-gauge and satellite observations also show that sea level is rising at or above the fastest rate proposed by the IPCC in 2007.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 16-17 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Planet Earth |
| Issue number | WINTER |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |