Scientists find greenhouse gas warming likely cause of industrial-era sea level rise
Posted: July 7, 2022
An international team of scientists, including Distinguished Professor Yemane Asmerom and Senior Research Science Victor Polyak from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has developed an accurate record of preindustrial sea level utilizing precisely dated phreatic overgrowths on speleothems that provide a detailed history of Late Holocene sea-level change in Mallorca, Spain, an island in the western Mediterranean Sea. The results provide an unprecedented picture of sea level over the past 4,000 years, putting the preindustrial and modern global mean sea level (GMSL) histories in context.
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