When the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was published in 2007, there was a lack of data on the Arctic, so the panel left a big source of potential sea-level-rise out of its projections for this century. It estimated a conservative rise of about 18 to 59 centimeters. Many scientists have suspected that the IPCC’s projections underestimate the pace of change and the latest research appears to back them up. Read More
