{"id":38714,"date":"2021-02-03T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=38714"},"modified":"2021-02-07T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T16:27:52","slug":"new-study-warns-that-sea-levels-will-rise-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/weeks-highlights\/new-study-warns-that-sea-levels-will-rise-faster-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"New study warns that sea levels will rise faster than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>A new study has found that sea levels are rising faster than expected, which would put 40% of the world\u2019s population living in coastal regions at elevated risk. Published Feb. 2 in the European Geosciences Union journal Ocean Science, the study introduced a new method of quantifying sea level rise by comparing historical sea level data with the sea\u2019s \u201csensitivity\u201d to warming. What it ultimately found was that current estimates of sea level rise \u2014 including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s (IPCC) projection that sea levels will rise by about a meter (39 inches) by the end of the century \u2014 were conservative. The study also suggests that the world would need to emit 200 gigatons to 300 gigatons less of carbon dioxide, and cool the Earth by about 0.6\u00b0 Celsius (1\u00b0 Fahrenheit), for sea level rise to correlate with previous models, Grinsted said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is crucial for our reliance on model-based climate predictions that they are able to reproduce the realised climate as realistically as possible,\u201d Christensen, a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, said in a statement. \u201cWe hope this new comparison metric will be adopted to as large extent as is possible and can become a tool we can apply in comparing different models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Horton, a professor at Singapore\u2019s Nanyang Technological University and director of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, who was not involved in the study, said this new research is important since computer models are not always accurate at predicting the future.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2021\/02\/new-study-warns-that-sea-levels-will-rise-faster-than-expected\/\">Mongabay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that sea levels are rising faster than expected, which would put 40% of the world\u2019s population living in coastal regions&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5594,31,77],"tags":[11217,2270,987],"class_list":["post-38714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-editors-choice","category-environmental-news-en","category-weeks-highlights","tag-coastal-regions","tag-sea-level","tag-warming","wpcat-5594-id","wpcat-31-id","wpcat-77-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/etel%C3%A4manner.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38795,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38714\/revisions\/38795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}