New study documents the natural relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the present (almost 400 parts per million) were systematically associated with sea levels at least nine metres above current levels.