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An international team of scientists has established that with complete melting sea ice around Antarctica and carbon dioxide concentrations in atmosphere remaining at 400 ppm for Century sea level rises by 23 meters. However now carbon dioxide concentration reached 415 parts per 1 million. According to the publication of Nature.
Scientists believe that the climate will change in the near future and become the same as three million years ago in the Pliocene era. Extensive melting of Greenland, West Antarctic and sea ice Antarctica will increase sea level by about 20 meters.
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It turned out that in the Pliocene era a gradual climate warming, and sea level periodically rose in up to an average of 13 meters, and a maximum of 25 meters. In this period Antarctic had a big impact on sea level rise glaciers.
The ongoing warming is not related to changes the amount of sunlight since it has not changed. Climatologists believe that the current warming is caused by man-made carbon emissions into the atmosphere. In doing so concentration has record values of several million years.
Earlier ESOREITER talked about discovered by scientists under the thickness ice Antarctica 47 sleeping volcanoes.
Andrey Vetrov
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