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Sea level in the IPCC 6th assessment report (AR6)

Real Climate

However, on the level of basic physical reasoning, it is of course a no-brainer that warming will cause land-ice to melt (and melt faster as it gets hotter) and ocean waters to expand, so sea-level rise is the inevitable result. We would see massive coastal erosion happening all around. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

A Greener Life

degrees C threshold in the next decades which countries had agreed as the desirable target in 2015’s Paris Agreement. Changes to the ocean including warming, frequent marine heatwaves, ocean acidification and reduced oxygen levels will continue throughout at least the rest of the century. What’s to come.