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A new United Nations brief highlights how sea-level rise affects coastal flooding, focusing on major G20 cities and Pacific Small Island States. It warns that climate change threatens coastal communities' lives and livelihoods. Anders Levermann, PIK researcher, contributed to the report. The global sea level is rising at rates unprecedented in the last 3,000 years, according to the UN report that was issued by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The publication outlines that in many areas of the western tropical Pacific, sea level has risen approximately 10–15 cm, close to or nearly twice the global rate measured since 1993. https://lnkd.in/d9SfUKnC
Sea levels are affected by prevailing winds in each basin which is a much larger and higher frequency signal than eustatic SLR. Why do you think they cherry picked the Western Tropical Pacific? And then misleadingly insinuating that this is due to AGW
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2moIf the rate of sea level rise has accelerated, then to what extent does that indicate that irreversible tipping points have been crossed? Thanks PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Anders Levermann