Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The world is on track for 2.5C-2.9C of global heating, which would almost certainly be beyond tipping points for the collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets. The melting of those ice sheets would lead to a "really dire" 12 metres of sea level rise. 

Today, about 230 million people live 1 metre above current sea level, and 1 billion live 10 metres above sea level…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration 


 

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