Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios: research
Sunday, January 9, 2011 - 14:50
in Earth & Climate
New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet by the year 3000, and an eventual rise in the global sea level of at least four metres.