Study: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Caused Irreversible Effects
on Sea-Level Rise October 2, 2012 7:47 PM comment(s) - last by
Emissions up until this point have ensured an irreversible sea-
level rise of 1.1 meters by the year 3000 A new study has found
that it's too late to reverse the effects that greenhouse gas
emissions will have on sea levels over the next thousand years
-- but we could lessen the impact of these effects if proper
changes are made. According to research by scientists at Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Manchester Metropolitan University and the
Universit é catholique de Louvain, greenhouse gas emissions
produced up to this point has ensured an irreversible sea-level
rise of 1.1 meters by the year 3000. This number could increase,
they warn, if no action is taken to reduce these levels -- and
the effects could extend into thousands of years into the
future. The research team came to this conclusion by modeling
sea-level changes over thousands of years while including all of
our planet's ice s