Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change

Sea level fluctuated substantially over the past 22,000 years. A simple model based on these fluctuations estimates between 7 and 86 cm of sea-level rise by the end of the twenty-first century—in agreement with climate model projections.

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