RIMS 2016: Sea Level Rise Will Be Worse and Come Sooner
by Don Jergler (Insurance Journal) … Sea levels could rise by much more than originally anticipated, and much faster, according to new data being collected by scientists studying the melting West Antarctic ice sheet – a massive sheet the size of Mexico.
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Davidson (Margaret Davidson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s senior advisor for coastal inundation and resilience science and services) said recent data that has been collected but has yet to be made official indicates sea levels could rise by roughly 3 meters or 9 feet by 2050-2060, far higher and quicker than current projections. Until now most projections have warned of seal level rise of up to 4 feet by 2100.
These new findings will likely be released in the latest sets of reports on climate change due out in the next few years.
“The latest field data out of West Antarctic is kind of an OMG thing,” she said. READ MORE and MORE (Scientific American) and MORE (Environmental Research Letters)
