"Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half"

"A new study said that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce sea level rise from melting ice sheets from about 10 inches to about five by 2100."

"Scientists on Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.

In a study that averaged results of hundreds of computer simulations from research teams around the world, the scientists said that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce sea level rise from melting glaciers and the vast Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from about 10 inches to about five by 2100.

That level of warming, equivalent to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, is the stricter of two targets set by the 2015 Paris agreement to combat climate change.

But the world has already warmed about 1.1 degrees Celsius since 1900, and is not on course to meet the 1.5 degree target, or even the higher Paris goal of 2 degrees Celsius."

Henry Fountain reports for the New York Times May 5, 2021.

SEE ALSO:

"Meeting the Paris Climate Goals is Critical to Preventing Disintegration of Antarctica’s Ice Shelves" (Inside Climate News)

"‘Uncertainty Is Not Our Friend’: Scientists Are Still Struggling To Understand The Sea Level Risks Posed By Antarctica" (Washington Post)