Global sea levels are rising due to global warming

Sydney Morning Herald : “Global mean sea level has been steadily rising over the last century . . . and will continue to rise beyond the year 2100 unless the current global mean temperature trend is reversed,” according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and colleagues predict that global sea levels will rise 2.3 meters with each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase. For their study, they combined climate history data with computer simulations of rising ocean levels and glacier and polar ice sheet melting. The biggest impact of sea-level rise will be the increasing destructiveness of storms, adds David Vaughan, head of the Ice2sea project, which is funded by the European Union.