Global sea level projected to rise by one metre by 2100, says Australian report

Tuesday, May 24th 2011 - 06:02 UTC

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The Australian Climate Commission has warned that acceleration of sea level-rise will be faster than anticipated. Global sea level is projected to rise by one meter by 2100, according to the Commission's first report published on Monday. Read full article

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GeoffWard
What your correspondent means to say is that the Greenland ice-cap (land-ice) melt will affect sea-level, not Arctic (sea-ice) melt.

What he/she doesn't say is that the process will accelerate because of the shallow-sea ice-melt mobilisation of methane from clathrates previously held solid by permafrost. This (geological) methane is over x20 more 'warming' than CO2, and will produce a new 'stable-high in carbon-modified troposheric temperatures.
Australia will be one of the first continents to become 'functionally uninhabitable' .
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