New Delhi: The World Meteorological Organization in its recent report has warned about the danger of rising sea level and its relation to global warming. According to the report, if global warming is limited to the target of 1.5 degree Celsius, the sea level will rise by 2 to 3 meters in the next two thousand years. Even if we managed to limit global warming to 2 °C, seas would rise by 6 metres.
In today’s DNA, Rohit Ranjan of Zee News will discuss the report of WMO on the expected rise in sea level due to global warming.
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The places along the coast lines are likely to be affected by the rising sea level. Cities affected by sea level rise are Mumbai (India), Cairo (Egypt), Bangkok (Thailand), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Jakarta (Indonesia), Shanghai (China), Copenhagen (Denmark), London (UK). , Los Angeles and New York (USA).
The WMO said in the report that India, China, Bangladesh and the Netherlands are at the highest risk of sea level rise globally.
From 1901 to 1971, the average sea level rose by 1.3 mm every year. It increased to 1.9 mm per year between 1971 and 2006. And then during 2006 to 2018 it nearly doubled to 3.7 mm per year. And from 2013 to 2022, sea level continued to rise at a rate of 4.5 mm per year every year.
The WMO report states that “human influence was the main driver of these increases since at least 1971”.