Sea level rise accelerating: acceleration in 25-year satellite sea level record

The steady pace of 3 mm of sea level rising is no more as the sea level currently accelerating every year. The accelerating increase equates to about 0.08 mm/year. Nerem who is a professor at the Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder harness 25 years of satellite data to calculate this. This study is also presumed to be conservative or underestimated because the predictions and findings of the sea level rising are calculated presuming that the conditions stay the same, which is highly unlikely. Nerem and his colleagues have found that if the oceans continue to rise like this, then there will be an overall rise of 26 inches by 2100, which would cause significant problems for coastal cities. Two ways that the sea level are rising is though a warming of the ocean waters and the melting of land ice. Warm water expands which causes a rise in sea level, and the melting of land ice though increasing temperatures world wide cause ice to melt and flow back into the ocean, causing the sea level to rise.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212150739.htm

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2018 at 2:19 PM

    I think this is a good article. Although what is your opinion of the whole situation? I personally find this to be bad because people near the coast could be completely submerged and on top of that there are huge ice bergs that are braking off that are the size of Delaware!

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