The study's forecast of 10 inches of sea level rise is more than twice as much sea level rise as researchers have previously calculated from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.
A massive ice sheet in Greenland is set to raise global sea levels by nearly a foot by 2100, in a melting event driven by human-caused climate change, according to a study published on Monday.
The findings in the Journal Nature Climate Change show that 3.3% of Greenland's ice sheet will melt, the equivalent of 110 trillion tons of ice. The study's forecast of 10 inches of sea level rise is more than twice as much sea level rise as researchers have previously calculated from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.
A massive ice sheet in Greenland is set to raise global sea levels by nearly a foot by the end of this century, in a melting event driven by human-caused climate change,The findings in the Journal Nature Climate Change show that 3.3% of Greenland's ice sheet will melt, which is equivalent to 110 trillion metric tons of ice. The ice loss will prompt about 10 inches of sea level rise between now and 2100.
Scientists warned the melting is inevitable even if the world immediately stops emitting planet-warming greenhouse gases. The study's forecast of a minimum of 10 inches of sea level rise is more than twice as much sea level rise as researchers have previously predicted from the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.
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