Sea Level Rise Inevitable – newest study proves
Notes: the 2°C warming (above the pre-industrial level) target emphasized by the Paris agreement is insufficient to prevent accelerated SL rise over the next century
Jun-Young Park et al 23 {M.S., Department of Climate System, Pusan National University, B.S., Department of Oceanography, Pusan National University} - ("Future sea-level projections with a coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice-sheet model," Nature, published 2-14-2023, accessed 7-13-2023, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36051-9)//marlborough-HL
Here we used the coupled three-dimensional climate-ice-sheet model LOVECLIP to better understand the impact of ice-sheet/ice-shelf/ocean/atmosphere coupling processes on the future evolution of GrIS and AIS, and to estimate their respective contributions to SL rise. In our high-end emission scenario, the GrIS and AIS each contribute about 60–70 cm to global mean SL rise over the next 130 years. Even though for SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 global surface temperatures are projected to increase at a reduced rate after 2100 CE (Fig. 2e), the ice-sheet contributions to SL continue to accelerate beyond 2100 CE (Fig. 2g, h), mostly driven by accelerated surface melting in case of the GrIS and due to a combination of effects for the AIS. According to our simulations, limiting 21st century global surface temperature rise to 2 °C above the pre-industrial level41,47 would be insufficient to slowdown the rate of global SL rise over the next 130 years42. Only the more aggressive low greenhouse gas emission scenario (SSP1-1.9), with temperatures leveling off below 1.5 °C (Fig. 2a), avoids SL rise acceleration (Fig. 2f). A longer-term warming and SL perspective until 2500 CE (Supplementary Table S1) illustrates that for the SSP2-4.5 scenario, SL rise due to GrIS melting accelerates for over 250 years after maximum global warming rates occur, and peaks at over 0.3 cm/year shortly before 2300 CE (Supplementary Fig. S7g). The Antarctic SL contribution for SSP2-4.5 fluctuates between 0.2 and 0.3 cm/year from 2200–2500 CE (Supplementary Fig. S7h). This indicates an even more prolonged response and larger commitment to SL rise due to 21st century warming, with the total AIS contribution reaching about 1.1 m by 2500 CE. In contrast, the aggressive greenhouse gas reduction scenario SSP1-1.9 with temperatures leveling off at less than 1.5 °C (Supplementary Fig. S7a, e) is sufficient to prevent substantial ice-loss in Antarctica (Supplementary Fig. S7h) over the next centuries.