Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander's 2024 Sea Level Rise Update
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Earth911 Podcast: Oceanographer John Englander's 2024 Sea Level Rise Update
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Sustainability In Your Ear welcomes back oceanographer and author John Englander, who last visited with us https://earth911.com/podcast/earth911-podcast-oceanographer-john-englander-shares-a-sea-level-rise-update/. John is the author of two pivotal books on Sea Level Rise, High...
show moreSea level rise is the permanent change humans will live with for centuries, probably millennia, because the oceans have absorbed most of the heat trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere. Average sea surface temperatures have climbed by about 0.8 degrees Celsius, or 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The Arctic is warming four times faster, about 3 degrees Celsius since 1980, and that has raised sea levels by between 21 and 24 centimeters, or about nine inches, in the same period. John also shared recent warnings about the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which drives circulation of seawater globally. Until we lower emissions sufficiently to stop glacial melting, sea level will only rise more and ports, infrastructure, and entire economies will deal with the threat of disruption. Learn more about the organization he cofounded, the Rising Seas Institute, at https://risingseasinstitute.org/. It became a program of Nova Southeastern University on November 1, 2024.
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