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May 4, 2011

Report: Global Warming Threatens Dramatic Sea Rise 
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A new international report finds rapidly increasing climate change could
raise global sea levels up to 5-feet 3-inches by 2100. Temperatures in
the arctic are the warmest ever recorded, putting the region’s ice
caps and glaciers, as well as the Greenland ice sheet, at risk of
melting. Such a thaw would threaten coasts from Bangladesh to Florida,
low-lying Pacific islands and cities from London to Shanghai. The report
from the Oslo-based Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program draws on
the work of hundreds of experts. It also warns of a significantly higher
sea level rise than previously anticipated. The last major report issued
in 2007 predicted sea levels would rise between 18 and 59 centimeters by
2100 (roughly equivalent to between 7 and 23 inches).



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