Sea levels
Prof. JONATHAN BAMBER
“Even moderate climate warming has incredibly serious consequences for humanity, and those consequences grow exponentially as the temperature rises. The committed sea-level rise from Antarctica even at 2°C represents an existential threat to entire nation states. We’re looking at removing nations from a map of the world because they no longer exist.”
Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/23/melting-antarctic-ice-will-raise-sea-level-by-25-metres-even-if-paris-climate-goals-are-met-study-finds
Prof. HANS JOACHIM SCHELLNHUBER
"In the long run, there is the problem of sea level rise. One degree, in the long run, translates into 15-20 meters sea level rise in equilibrium. Two degrees, the target of the European Union, means sea level rise of 30-40 meters – over maybe a thousand years. Draw a line around your coast – probably not a lot would be left."
Russian Roulette Odds … If We’re Lucky
uniavisen.dk/en/russian-roulette-odds-if-were-lucky/
Profs YANGYANG XU AND VEERABHADRAN RAMANATHAN
“For those among the bottom 3 billion of the world’s population who are living in coastal areas, a 1- to 2-metre rise in sea level (likely with a warming in excess of 3°C) poses existential threat if they do not relocate or migrate.”
Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1618481114
People and displacement
Prof. KEVIN ANDERSON
“A 4°C future is incompatible with an organised global community, is likely to be beyond ‘adaptation’, is devastating to the majority of ecosystems and has a high probability of not being stable”.
The brutal logic of climate change
grist.org/climate-change/2011-12-05-the-brutal-logic-of-climate-change
Prof. JOHAN ROCKSTRÖM
At 4°C: “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate eight billion people or maybe even half of that.”
The heat is on over the climate crisis. Only radical measures will work
theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live
