How fast are the seas rising? » Yale Climate Connections
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A May 2023* paper in PNAS found that glaciers that end in the ocean are subject to much greater melting than previously assumed. This could be a major Scooby-Doo “ruh-roh” finding for people living on the coast – in an interview with axios.com, University of California professor Eric Rignot, co-author of the study, said, “We have reasons to believe that the current [sea level rise] projections are too low, not too high. They could be as much two times too low.”