"If we do nothing, these processes themselves will lead to an increase in sea level by at least a meter in the next 130 years," said IBS professor Axel Timmermann.
He and his colleagues found out that sea level rise could accelerate dramatically in the coming decades if humanity does not keep global warming at 1.8 ° C, writes Profil.
Climatologists came to this conclusion by creating the most detailed computer model of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. Their calculations showed that warming by 1.8 ° C will trigger a kind of self-sustaining chain reaction that will accelerate the melting of glaciers in the next 150 years.
As a result, the sea level will rise by about a meter by 2150, and under unfavorable circumstances, the growth will be more than 140 cm. This, in turn, will cause a lot of problems for the infrastructure of coastal cities and countries, scientists warned.
