One of the leading climate scientists of our time is warning of the horrifying possibility of 15-to-20 feet of sea-level rise
Richard Alley
is not a fringe character in the world of climate change. In fact, he
is widely viewed as one of the greatest climate scientists of our time.
If there is anyone who understands the full complexity of the risks we
face from climate change, it’s Alley. And far from being alarmist, Alley
is known for his careful, rigorous science. He has spent most of his
adult life deconstructing past Earth climates from the information in
ice cores and rocks and ocean sediments. And what he has learned about
the past, he has used to better understand the future.
For
a scientist of Alley’s stature to say that he can’t rule out 15 or 20
feet of sea-level rise in the coming decades is mind-blowing. And it is
one of the clearest statements I’ve ever heard of just how much trouble
we are in on our rapidly warming planet (and I’ve heard a lot — I wrote a book about sea-level rise)."
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