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Emissions may add 40 cm to sea levels by 2100, experts warn – Macau Business

Sustained greenhouse gas emissions could see global sea levels rise nearly 40 centimetres this century as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland…

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Sustained greenhouse gas emissions could see global sea levels rise nearly 40 centimetres this century as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland continue to melt, a major international study concluded Thursday. 
The gigantic ice caps contain enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, and researchers are increasingly concerned that their melt rates are tracking the UN’s worst case scenarios for sea level rise.
Experts from more than three dozen research institutions used temperature and ocea…

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