GLOBAL warming could be on the verge of triggering a rise in sea levels that
would flood huge swathes of the Earth’s most densely populated regions, says an
unpublished report from the world’s top climate scientists.
Caused in large part by the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, this process
would take a thousand years or more but would be “irreversible” once under
way.
The report, due to be published next May by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC), is being read by the world’s governments. The final
draft seen by 91av suggests that dozens of the countries…
