Ice Melting
¥Rising Seas
–Massive Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets are melting at accelerating rates
–Together hold enough water to raise sea level 12 meters (39 feet)
–A 10-meter rise in sea level today would inundate coastal areas home to more than 600 million people
The risk is that climate change could spiral out of control, making it impossible to arrest trends such as rising temperatures, ice melting, and rising seas, threatening food security and creating hundreds of millions of climate refugees.
Photo Credit: Yann Arthus-Bertrand