Sentence examples for raise sea level from inspiring English sources

Although their destruction does not directly raise sea level, the shelves had acted like door jambs against inland ice sheets.

Future melting particularly of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica was shown to have the greatest potential to raise sea level.

The Greenland Ice Sheet contains about the same volume, whereas the East Antarctic Ice Sheet contains enough water to raise sea level about 60 metres.

Some experts have concluded that the loss of ice from the West Antarctic ice sheet is now irreversible and that this will raise sea level by 1 to 2 metres in as little as a few hundred years.

If emissions continue to rise unabated through this century, the Greenland and/or West Antarctica ice sheets could be thrown into an unstoppable melting cycle that would raise sea level by more than seven metres each.

Warming glaciers raise sea level in two main ways.

Melting land ice does raise sea levels.

Over the longer term, melt from Antarctica could raise sea levels by fifty feet.

"If Greenland melted," he said, "it'd raise sea levels by 20 feet.

If melted, the ice from Antarctica alone would raise sea levels by 60 meters.

That is enough water to raise sea levels worldwide by about one-sixtieth of an inch, they said.