Sunday, June 05, 2011

With less than 89 years left until 2100, new report suggests sea level rise will be over 6 times the low end of IPCC projections

Coastal assets worth $226b at risk: Combet
Shopping centres, office buildings, roads and railways worth $226 billion could be at risk if climate change causes the sea level to rise around one metre by 2100.
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The report's assessment is based on a sea level rise of 1.1m by the end of the century.

Labor's climate commission says the most plausible estimate of sea level rise by 2100 is 0.5 to 1m.

That is higher than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's top range of 0.18 to 0.76m.

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