Global Warming Unavoidable

A new study shows that global warming and a rise in sea levels would have continued regardless of greenhouse gases not being stabilized by 2000. "Many people don't realize we are committed right now to a significant amount of global warming and sea level rise because of the greenhouse gases we have already put into the atmosphere," says the report's lead author Gerald Meehl. "Even if we stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations, the climate will continue to warm, and there will be proportionately even more sea level rise. The longer we wait, the more climate change we are committed to in the future." A