From: TreeHugger
We will most likely see larger than previously expected increases in sea levels over the next century according to a recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. They anticipate that the global warming-induced melting of mountain glaciers and ice caps will account for the brunt of that rise, as much as 2-3 times more than the amount originally predicted.
The scientists used satellite monitoring to determine the contribution of all land-based ice (except for Greenland and Antarctica’s huge ice sheets) to rising sea levels and found that the volume of ice melting into the sea each… Read more
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