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

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The take-away message is: for high emissions we’d likely get close to a meter, sticking to the Paris agreement would cut that down to half a meter. That we cannot turn this back is the reason why the precautionary principle should be applied to the climate crisis. Source: IPCC AR6, Figure SPM.8.

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