Sea levels may soon rise 16m at current carbon dioxide levels even without further global warming, predicts scientists.
Comparing the current carbon dioxide levels to that of geological evidence found in Mallorca caves in Spain, scientists predict sea levels to rise 16 meters. Sixteen meters is 52+ foot, and such a rise in sea level could engulf many parts of the world. The dangerous part than the carbon dioxide level being the same when the sea level was 16 m high, is that this rise is even without further global warming.
Mallorca cave analysis:
Two professors of Florida and Mexico university today published an article in Journal Nature on their finding sin Mallocran cave in Spain. They analyzed the deposits from Arta Cave on the Mallorca island on the western Mediterranean.
From the analysis, they found that the sea produced sea levels, which will serve as a target or standard for future studies of seal level rise. They were seeking answers to how could global warming increase the melting of ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antartica.