New findings back IPCC on future sea level rise

摘要

Fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements have been used to place better constraints on future sea level rise, and to test sea level projections. The results are published in Nature Geoscience and predict that the amount of sea level rise by the end of this century will be between seven and 82 centimetres -depending on the amount of warming that occurs - a figure similar to that projected by the IPCC report of 2007.