According to the results of a study by two international research teams published in a scientific journal yesterday, the rate of rising sea levels is occurring much faster than previously predicted.
The study indicates that greenhouse gas emissions are projected to increase over the next century, potentially raising summer temperatures in the Arctic by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius. If this trend continues, the Arctic could be ice-free by the year 2100. Currently, the Earth’s temperature is rising in a manner that could lead to the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and the Arctic by 2600, submerging densely populated areas along the coast and almost the entire Netherlands under seawater. Sea levels are predicted to rise by at least 6 meters or more by that time, a phenomenon that scientists previously believed would take over a thousand years to occur. At that point, central areas of London (UK) would be completely flooded. Without timely and decisive intervention starting now, humanity will be unable to reverse this trend by the latter half of this century.
T.M
