IPCC Underestimated Ocean Temperatures And Sea Level Increases By 50 Percent, Says Study
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 22:28
in Earth & Climate
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was wrong, say a group of researchers, but not about whether there was global warming. Rather, the report underestimated its effects concerning ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 - by 50 percent. The report in the June 19 edition of Nature compared climate models with observations that show sea levels rose by 1.5 millimeters per year in the period from 1961-2003. That equates to an approximately 2 inch increase in ocean levels in a 42-year span. Not exactly WaterWorld but not insignificant either. read more
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