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"Greenland’s ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought,
threatening hundreds of millions of people with inundation and bringing
some of the irreversible impacts of the climate emergency much closer.
Ice is being lost from Greenland seven times faster than it was in the
1990s, and the scale and speed of ice loss is much higher than was
predicted in the comprehensive studies of global climate science by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to data.
That means sea level rises are likely to reach 67cm by 2100, about 7cm
more than the IPCC’s main prediction. Such a rate of rise will put 400
million people at risk of flooding every year, instead of the 360
million predicted by the IPCC, by the end of the century."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
