The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking. -Jonathan Overpeck

 

The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking.


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This is a real eye-opener set of results. The warmth necessary to do this isn't all that great.

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What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.

Jonathan Overpeck

After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter?or three feet?per one hundred years.

Jonathan Overpeck

We know when the sea level was that high in the past, and we know how much warming is necessary to get that amount of sea level rise from both Greenland and Antarctica.

Jonathan Overpeck

The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking.

Jonathan Overpeck