Zeespiegelstijging kan sneller gaan dan gedacht: alarmerend toekomstscenario

The world's most famous climate scientist just outlined an alarming scenario for our planet's future
Door Chris Mooney, The Washington Post, 20 juli 2015

[...] James Hansen has often been out ahead of his scientific colleagues. With his 1988 congressional testimony, the then-NASA scientist is credited with putting the global warming issue on the map by saying that a warming trend had already begun. [...] Now Hansen [...] is publishing what he says may be his most important paper. Along with 16 other researchers - including leading experts on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets - he has authored a lengthy study outlining an scenario of potentially rapid sea level rise combined with more intense storm systems.

[...] The authors conclude that 2 degrees Celsius global warming—the widely accepted international target for how much the world should limit global warming—is "highly dangerous."

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New research indicates that, due to global warming, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may be headed for an unavoidable and disastrous collapse, triggering a rapid rise in sea levels.

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Tags: klimaatverandering, opwarming aarde, broeikaseffect, zeespiegelstijging, oceaancirculatie, golfstroom, 2 graden Celcius, doel, grens, Zuidpool, Antarctica, Groenland, ijs, smelten, stormen, kuststeden, overstromingen