Posted on 04/02/2021 2:07:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Current models used by many climate scientists estimate global sea levels could rise by between 1 and 2 meters by the end of this century.
The Durham researchers used detailed geological sea-level data and state-of-the-art modeling techniques to reveal the sources of the dramatic five-century sea level rising event.
Comparable to melting an ice sheet twice the size of Greenland, it resulted in the flooding of vast areas of low-lying land and disrupted ocean circulation, with knock-on effects for global climate, they said.
"Our study includes novel information from lakes around the coast of Scotland that were isolated from the ocean due to land uplift following the retreat of the British Ice Sheet, allowing us to confidently identify the meltwater sources," added co-author Yucheng Lin, also of Durham's geography department.
Identifying the source of the meltwater will help improve the accuracy of climate models that are used to replicate the past and predict changes in the future, the team added.
They noted the findings were particularly timely with the Greenland ice sheet rapidly melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels and changes to global ocean circulation.
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It was at the end of the Ice Age. What color is ice? That is the problem...ice supremacy.
Nothing melted before the founding of the USA.
Something long written about by Hancock, Schoch, etc. etc. etc. Mainstream just catching up? Like w t f.
10 times faster than today. What is 10 times nothing?
Would it have flooded the basement in Hussein’s beachfront mansion?
10 times faster than today. What is 10 times nothing?
Math is racist
Yet another issue that Joe Biden failed to address during his time in the Senate. Jk
Alert....danger....danger....danger
This question is too technical and may cause bent egos and hurt feelings....
10 times faster than today. What is 10 times nothing?
How dare you.
10 times faster is actually 4 x 2 = 10 using modern math. Don’t be so difficult. /S
This is bullfeathers. It hasn't melted as much as during the Medieval Warm Period, not to mention the Holocene Maximum several thousand years ago.
I’ve read that the surface of the earth is still rebounding from the weight of the ice sheets that melted away. If the land is rising, it would explain why we should NOT expect flooding from rising oceans. At least at this point.
I guess everyone will be going to Holland to learn how they have adapted to sea levels higher than land that they occupy adjacent to the sea (and those north Atlantic seas can be pretty rough at times).
Have you seen the Sahara?
It’s a desert.
We WANT the ice to melt! Melt, baby, melt!
Dig a sea-level canal through Panama and let the Pacific cut South America loose! Africa will be green, again, and no more Caravans!
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And if CO2 rises to 0.045%, all the dry land that will be left will be the very top of Mt Everest
A great idea, drag the fresh water ice sheets to the sahara to melt.
I’ve read in other places it’s not so much the sea rising as it is the land subsiding.
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