'Staggering.'
, an international team of researchers found that ice melt from Greenland alone will cause sea levels to rise by at least 10.6 inches. But actually, that sounds like a best-case scenario. If record melt years like 2012 were to become routine due to climate change, the researchers found that sea levels could rise a "staggering" 30.7 inches.
A rise of 10.6 inches is "a very conservative rock-bottom minimum," Jason Box, lead author from the National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland , toldOne significant drawback of the research, however, is the fact that it isn't able to provide a timescale within which the sea-level rise will occur. But given current trends, it won't be too long.
"If [2012] becomes a normal year, then the committed loss grows to [30.7 inches], which is staggering, and the fact that we’re already flickering into that range [of ice loss] is shocking," Colgan added.But not all is lost, as the "difference between [30.7 inches] and [10.6 inches] highlights the [difference] that can be made through implementing the Paris agreement," Colgan noted. "There is still a lot of room to minimize the damage.
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