Our research shows that products produced by a relatively small number of industrial fossil fuel producers have played a large role in altering global climate. It also shows that emissions from just a few decades are projected to have impacts to global average sea levels for centuries to come... 6/n - ThreadSky

scienceshaina.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Our research shows that products produced by a relatively small number of industrial fossil fuel producers have played a large role in altering global climate. It also shows that emissions from just a few decades are projected to have impacts to global average sea levels for centuries to come... 6/n

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scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thermal expansion and ice sheet mass loss are the two primary drivers of sea level rise. Delays in greenhouse gas emissions mitigation will come with long-term consequences due to the long response time of the oceans and crysophere. https://blog.ucs.org/shaina-sadai/the-sea-level-rise-legacy-of-past-and-future-heat-trapping-emissions/ 7/n

scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

Higher future emissions will have higher long-term SLR. By comparing different historical counterfactuals run with various future emissions scenarios we find that long-term attribution to past emissions is robust regardless of future emissions trajectories... 8/n

scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Immediate and near-term mitigation is crucial to meeting global climate goals and reducing long-term impacts, such as sea level rise, which will evolve over centuries. This study underscores that the past actions of fossil fuel and cement producers will have consequences long into the future.” 9/n

scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you to the amazing author team: my research partner @miranganathan.bsky.social, UCS advisors Delta Merner, Kristina Dahl, Rachel Licker, & @brendaekwurzel.bsky.social, and MAGICC developers Alexander Nauels and Zebedee Nicholls. 10/n

scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

This work is the result of my Hitz Fellowship at @ucsusa.bsky.social! It relied on the amazing Carbon Majors dataset from @influencemap.bsky.social!

There are more materials related to this work to explore here! https://ucs.org/resources/tracing-tides 11/n

scienceshaina.bsky.social•4 days ago

For folks interested in the climate justice implications of long-term sea level rise, especially as it relates to the Paris Agreement, check out my prior work here! https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF002940 /end

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