{"id":1916,"date":"2020-11-27T13:21:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:22:40","slug":"current-rates-of-sea-level-rise-higher-than-ipcc-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/current-rates-of-sea-level-rise-higher-than-ipcc-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Rates of Sea Level Rise Higher Than IPCC Estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Science, November 20<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div>Over the past decade, sea levels have risen by an average of 4.8 millimeters per year, a rate much higher than the values estimated in the IPCC\u2019s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). This discrepancy suggests that the three main drivers of sea-level rise\u2014thermal expansion of ocean water from global warming, melting glaciers and melting ice sheets\u2014began sooner than previously estimated. \u00a0This compilation of sea-level rise studies projects that Greenland melt will likely become the largest contributor to rising sea levels by 2100; but that winds and ocean currents will play a crucial role in determining along which coastlines sea levels will rise the most in coming decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/370\/6519\/901\">https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/370\/6519\/901<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Compiled by Amy Imdieke.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science, November 20 Over the past decade, sea levels have risen by an average of 4.8 millimeters per year, a rate much higher than the values estimated in the IPCC\u2019s 2014 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). This discrepancy suggests that the three main drivers of sea-level rise\u2014thermal expansion of ocean water from global warming, melting glaciers [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules","category-latest-research"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}