Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Ice loss from the polar ice sheets will lock us in to multi-metres of sea level rise over the (very) long term. Even today's warming of 1.3 C will result in coastline-altering sea level rise. But how fast seas rise is critically important when it comes to adaptation - and by now it's pretty much the only thing we can control.
New paper here: Stokes et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w
Sea level animation using data from NASA-SSH satellite product, see e.g.
podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/NASA_SSH_GMSL_INDICATOR# svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5516
Additional video content from NASA-JPL/Caltech/NOAA
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Contents
00:00 – Redrawing the map
01:25 – Sea level rise today
02:21 – Timescales
04:53 – The evidence
06:21 – Tipping points
07:12 – This hurts
08:51 – Net Zero and beyond
09:55 – We know what to do
10:45 – Support the channel
#ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise
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Special thanks to my Patreon subscribers, including my Patreon Saints: Steven Cowling, Eliot Bryant, Baerbel Winkler, Patrick Hillberg, Michael Unterweger, James Harley Gorrell & Gary Stark. You all rock ♥️
Join them at patreon.com/dr_gilbz
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References & Resources
Stokes et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w
Hamlington et al. (2024) nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5
Bevacqua et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02246-9
theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration
bbc.co.uk/future/article/20231130-climate-crisis-the-15c-global-warming-threshold-explained
carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached
thelastglaciers.com/sea-level-rise
thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/earth-space/pliocene-sea-level-snapshots
DeConto & Pollard (2016) nature.com/articles/nature17145
Stokes et al. (2022) nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04946-0
DeConto et al. (2021) nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03427-0
Box et al. (2022) nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01441-2
Haywood et al. (2013) cp.copernicus.org/articles/9/191/2013/cp-9-191-2013.html
Boers & Rypdal (2021) pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2024192118
King et al. (2017) nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2
Pattyn et al. (2018) nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0305-8
Ice loss from the polar ice sheets will lock us in to multi-metres of sea level rise over the (very) long term. Even today's warming of 1.3 C will result in coastline-altering sea level rise. But how fast seas rise is critically important when it comes to adaptation - and by now it's pretty much the only thing we can control.
New paper here: Stokes et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w
Sea level animation using data from NASA-SSH satellite product, see e.g.
podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/NASA_SSH_GMSL_INDICATOR# svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5516
Additional video content from NASA-JPL/Caltech/NOAA
##################################################
Contents
00:00 – Redrawing the map
01:25 – Sea level rise today
02:21 – Timescales
04:53 – The evidence
06:21 – Tipping points
07:12 – This hurts
08:51 – Net Zero and beyond
09:55 – We know what to do
10:45 – Support the channel
#ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise
##################################################
Special thanks to my Patreon subscribers, including my Patreon Saints: Steven Cowling, Eliot Bryant, Baerbel Winkler, Patrick Hillberg, Michael Unterweger, James Harley Gorrell & Gary Stark. You all rock ♥️
Join them at patreon.com/dr_gilbz
##################################################
References & Resources
Stokes et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w
Hamlington et al. (2024) nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5
Bevacqua et al. (2025) nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02246-9
theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-migration
bbc.co.uk/future/article/20231130-climate-crisis-the-15c-global-warming-threshold-explained
carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached
thelastglaciers.com/sea-level-rise
thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/earth-space/pliocene-sea-level-snapshots
DeConto & Pollard (2016) nature.com/articles/nature17145
Stokes et al. (2022) nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04946-0
DeConto et al. (2021) nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03427-0
Box et al. (2022) nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01441-2
Haywood et al. (2013) cp.copernicus.org/articles/9/191/2013/cp-9-191-2013.html
Boers & Rypdal (2021) pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2024192118
King et al. (2017) nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2
Pattyn et al. (2018) nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0305-8
