Coastal sea level rise with warming above 2 °C
Two degrees of global warming above the pre-industrial level is widely suggested as an appropriate threshold beyond which climate change risks become unacceptably high. This ‘2° C' threshold is likely to be reached between 2040 and 2050 for both Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 an...
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National Academy of Sciences
2016
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