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SUBMITTER: Nauels A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6876237 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191104 47
The main contributors to sea-level rise (oceans, glaciers, and ice sheets) respond to climate change on timescales ranging from decades to millennia. A focus on the 21st century thus fails to provide a complete picture of the consequences of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on future sea-level rise and its long-term impacts. Here we identify the committed global mean sea-level rise until 2300 from historical emissions since 1750 and the currently pledged National Determined Contributions ( ...[more]