A recent report from NASA has said that ice caps melting will happen whether we want it to or not. For the Rising Sea Levels issue, this is a major development and all the more reason why people should be discussing and in turn doing something about it.
A article in The Guardian revealed that via a European Satellite, we now know that "Antarctica is shedding 160 billion tonnes a year of ice into the ocean." The cause is the heat in the water slowly melting and "eating away" away at the sides of the glaciers, over the last 20 years. This will add up to 1.2 meters of future sea level rise, cementing the fact the sea levels will rise at the very least, 1 meter. One report from the Guardian indicated the possibility that Middle East and Asia could experience severe flooding and another brought up question on whether or not scientists realize the full threat of this issue.
This was a comment made on one of the reports from Hot Topic:
"The bottom line is clear: even if the global community succeeds in hitting a 2ºC target and the atmosphere stays under 450 ppm CO2 , we are going to have to say goodbye to the current coastline and everything built there. The long transition has begun in earnest. We can but hope that it is a process slow enough to allow us to adapt."
That doesn't sound good. One consolation is that while it will happen, it is assumed that it will take centuries to complete. Hopefully, that will give us time to prepare and 'adapt'.
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