It is easy to say that statistics on global warming has been alarming in the last few years. According to research, the last two decades of the twentieth century have charted the hottest days in the last 400 years. While the figures seem abstract, more than 100,000 people have succumbed to heat related deaths in the last century. Human beings are not the only ones who have suffered from the extreme and hasty climate change. It is claimed that more than 1 million species have gone extinct from losing their habitats and ecosystems.
Scientists have been conducting research on the nature of global warming. While there have been efforts dedicated to reverse human abuse on the environment, it seems like these programs have to produce results at least considering the latest data acquired surrounding the current state of sea levels.
Recently, a team of scientists published an academic paper on the journal from the National Academy of Sciences detailing the alarming rate sea levels have risen in the last 2,800 years. According to the group, the average increase in sea levels across history was around 1 to 1.5 inches every hundred years. However in the 20th century the world's seas rose 5.5 inches. Still the researchers further explain that by 2100 it is possible that the Earth's oceans would have risen 11 to 52 inches.
Scientists involved in the project have since spoken out about what could be the cause of the startling rise in sea levels. Unanimously, they agree that the rising temperature is to blame for the current sea level issue.
"There's no question that the 20th century is the fastest. It's because of the temperature increase in the 20th century which has been driven by fossil fuel use" explained Bob Kopp, an earth and planetary science professor from Rutgers University.
