Sea level rise could double previous estimates, study finds (+video)

Previous estimates of sea level rise underestimate contributions from the Antarctic ice sheet by more than one meter, say two climate scientists in a study Wednesday.

By Story Hinckley, Staff 

March 30, 2016 | http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0330/Sea-level-rise-could-double-previous-estimates-study-finds-video

Many climate scientists have predicted sea-level rise over the next century as a result of human-caused climate change. But in a new study, two climate scientists say an accurate estimate of sea-level rise is actually double that of previous predictions.
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University say previous ice-sheet-climate models “under-appreciated” the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet.
But to better understand the future, and Antarctica’s potential role in it, Professor DeConto and Professor Pollard first looked to the past.http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0330/Sea-level-projections-may-be-vastly-underestimated-say-scientists