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"The results suggest the threshold is close to the end of this century, and it could come sooner. The Arctic is already warming much faster than we thought it would. To think we're not going to get 4 to 5 degrees warmer in another 50 years is wishful thinking."
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"We need to start serious measures to reduce greenhouse gases within the next decade. If we don't do something soon, we're committed to four to six meters (13 to 20 feet) of sea-level rise in the future."
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Decade
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"Although we show that the models do an excellent job, our primary results are based on data. We know the ice sheets melted. We know how much warmth it took to melt them. And that is not a modeled finding."
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"As [Hurricane] Katrina pointed out, we only need a meter [about 3.2 feet] of sea-level rise to make much of New Orleans unlivable. The same goes for a number of coastal areas."
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"It's hard to imagine why we're wanting to rebuild if we're going to allow global warming."
Jonathan Overpeck
Global Warming

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"A lot of the stories you read make it sound like there's uncertainty. There's not uncertainty."
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Uncertainty
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"What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic."
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"This is a real eye-opener set of results. The warmth necessary to do this isn't all that great."
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"We know when the sea level was that high in the past, and we know how much warming is necessary to get that amount of sea level rise from both Greenland and Antarctica."
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"If we decide to keep on the track we're on now and just keep on warming, because of greenhouse gas pollution, then we could easily cook those ice sheets more rapidly."
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"After that we'll be committed to multiple more meters of sea level rise that will occur at rates of up to a meter?or three feet?per one hundred years."
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"Mother Nature is changing even faster than models suggested it would in the Arctic."
Jonathan Overpeck

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