The sea level will rise by 10-20 meters in case ice on the earth gets melted. The process is inevitable, even if the humanity manages to pass to a 2°C, which is considered as ‘stable’ by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is claimed by a group of researchers at the Rutgers University, published in the Geology magazine.

The researchers compared the modern climate processes with the epoch of Late Pliocene (2.7-3.2 million years ago), when the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and the earth temperature was similar to the current parameters.

According to the scientists, if the temperature goes up by 2 degrees and the current climate will get closer to that of the Pliocene, similar processes would occur in the planet in the future.

However, hypothesis, prevailing among scientists, claims that the World Ocean will anyway rise 0.8-1 m in the 21st century. And a new hypothesis claims that it will later cause the large-scale flooding.