trustme.bro/r/…
✓ checked
trust me, bro:
here is the receipt.
the claim
Burning all fossil fuel resources causes complete melting of ice sheets and massive sea level rise
the verdict
SUPPORTED
the evidence backs this
refutedsupported
the weight of evidence
13 sources for · 0 against

Scientific literature and reports demonstrate that burning all available fossil fuel resources would release enough carbon emissions to completely melt global ice sheets, such as the Antarctic Ice Sheet, leading to massive, tens-of-meters sea level rises.

Evidence for · 13
2013 · cited by 414
Coastal populations and wetlands have been intertwined for centuries, whereby humans both influence and depend on the extensive ecosystem services that wetlands provide. Although coastal wetlands have long been considered vulnerable to sea-level rise, recent work has identified fascinating feedbacks between plant growth and geomorphology that allow wetlands to actively resist the deleterious effects of sea-level rise. Humans alter the strength of these feedbacks by changing the climate, nutrient inputs, sediment delivery and subsidence rates. Whether wetlands continue to survive sea-level rise depends largely on how human impacts interact with rapid sea-level rise, and socio-economic factors that influence transgression into adjacent uplands.
See more details
The analysis

rails:sufficiency:supported:single_source:for=1+11p:against=0+0p | v55:sufficiency

More for · 12
2022 · cited by 356
Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to conceptually engineer how climate variability is deteriorating the sustainability of diverse sectors worldwide. Specifically, the agricultural sector's vulnerability is a globally concerning scenario, as sufficient production and food supplies are threatened due to irreversible weather fluctuations. In turn, it is challenging the global feeding patterns, particularly in countries with agriculture as an integral part of their economy and total productivity. Climate change has also put the integrity and survival of many species at stake due to shifts in optimum temperature ranges, thereby accelerating biodiversity loss by progressively changing the ecosystem structures. Climate variations increase the likelihood of particular food and waterborne and vector-borne diseases, and a recent example is a coronavirus pandemic. Climate change also accelerates the enigma of antimicrobial resistance, another threat to human health due to the increasing incidence of resistant pathogenic infections. Besides, the global tourism industry is devastated as climate change impacts unfavorable tourism spots. The methodology investigates hypothetical scenarios of climate variability and attempts to describe the quality of evidence to facilitate readers' careful, critical engagement. Secondary data is used to identify sustainability issues such as environmental, social, and economic viability. To better understand the problem, gathered the information in this report from various media outlets, research agencies, policy papers, newspapers, and other sources. This review is a sectorial assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches worldwide in the aforementioned sectors and the associated economic costs. According to the findings, government involvement is necessary for the country's long-term development through strict accountability of resources and regulations implemented in the past to generate cutting-edge climate policy. Therefore, mitigating the impacts of climate change must be of the utmost importance, and hence, this global threat requires global commitment to address its dreadful implications to ensure global sustenance.
2013 · cited by 160
Cenozoic temperature, sea level and CO2 covariations provide insights into climate sensitivity to external forcings and sea-level sensitivity to climate change. Climate sensitivity depends on the initial climate state, but potentially can be accurately inferred from precise palaeoclimate data. Pleistocene climate oscillations yield a fast-feedback climate sensitivity of 3±1(°)C for a 4 W m(-2) CO2 forcing if Holocene warming relative to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is used as calibration, but the error (uncertainty) is substantial and partly subjective because of poorly defined LGM global temperature and possible human influences in the Holocene. Glacial-to-interglacial climate change leading to the prior (Eemian) interglacial is less ambiguous and implies a sensitivity in the upper part of the above range, i.e. 3-4(°)C for a 4 W m(-2) CO2 forcing. Slow feedbacks, especially change of ice sheet size and atmospheric CO2, amplify the total Earth system sensitivity by an amount that depends on the time scale considered. Ice sheet response time is poorly defined, but we show that the slow response and hysteresis in prevailing ice sheet models are exaggerated. We use a global model, simplified to essential processes, to investigate state dependence of climate sensitivity, finding an increased sensitivity towards warmer climates, as low cloud cover is diminished and increased water vapour elevates the tropopause. Burning all fossil fuels, we conclude, would make most of the planet uninhabitable by humans, thus calling into question strategies that emphasize adaptation to climate change.
2015 · cited by 124
Fossil-fuel resources are sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Antarctic Ice Sheet stores water equivalent to 58 m in global sea-level rise. We show in simulations using the Parallel Ice Sheet Model that burning the currently attainable fossil fuel resources is sufficient to eliminate the ice sheet. With cumulative fossil fuel emissions of 10,000 gigatonnes of carbon (GtC), Antarctica is projected to become almost ice-free with an average contribution to sea-level rise exceeding 3 m per century during the first millennium. Consistent with recent observations and simulations, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet becomes unstable with 600 to 800 GtC of additional carbon emissions. Beyond this additional carbon release, the destabilization of ice basins in both West and East Antarctica results in a threshold increase in global sea level. Unabated carbon emissions thus threaten the Antarctic Ice Sheet in its entirety with associated sea-level rise that far exceeds that of all other possible sources.
2015 · cited by 98
Interdisciplinary studies of geologic archives have ushered in a new era of deciphering magnitudes, rates, and sources of sea-level rise from polar ice-sheet loss during past warm periods. Accounting for glacial isostatic processes helps to reconcile spatial variability in peak sea level during marine isotope stages 5e and 11, when the global mean reached 6 to 9 meters and 6 to 13 meters higher than present, respectively. Dynamic topography introduces large uncertainties on longer time scales, precluding robust sea-level estimates for intervals such as the Pliocene. Present climate is warming to a level associated with significant polar ice-sheet loss in the past. Here, we outline advances and challenges involved in constraining ice-sheet sensitivity to climate change with use of paleo-sea level records.
2013 · cited by 89
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ∼500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted. Cumulative emissions of ∼1000 GtC, sometimes associated with 2°C global warming, would spur "slow" feedbacks and eventual warming of 3-4°C with disastrous consequences. Rapid emissions reduction is required to restore Earth's energy balance and avoid ocean heat uptake that would practically guarantee irreversible effects. Continuation of high fossil fuel emissions, given current knowledge of the consequences, would be an act of extraordinary witting intergenerational injustice. Responsible policymaking requires a rising price on carbon emissions that would preclude emissions from most remaining coal and unconventional fossil fuels and phase down emissions from conventional fossil fuels.
2013 · cited by 2
A new study says that although field measurements were painting an accurate picture of the few glaciers being monitored, they were not representative of the world's glaciers.
2025 · cited by 0
Transport has a significant harmful impact on the environment, contributing to air, water and soil pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change. Burning fossil fuels in transportation means releases large amounts of CO₂ and other pollutants, degrading air quality and contributing to global warming. Transport also causes noise pollution and habitat destruction due to infrastructure development like roads and highways. On the other hand, sustainable transport seeks to minimise these negative effects by promoting cleaner technologies, such as electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles, and improving fuel efficiency. Industrial symbiosis in the transport sector refers to collaborative efforts between companies to optimise resources, reduce waste, and improve energy efficiency. Industrial symbiosis in the transport sector can include recycling vehicles and their parts, using alternative fuels, sharing infrastructure, etc. There are several successful practical examples of industrial symbiosis in the transport sector. While no single legal framework is dedicated solely to industrial symbiosis in transport, the legal aspects of this concept are covered through broader regulations related to sustainability, the circular economy, and emissions reduction. These legal frameworks include European Union directives and Member States' national laws as well as international treaties and rules of most important international organisations dealing with transport. At the European Union l
2016 · cited by 0
Climate change is a burning issue of the world. Increasing of CO 2 by industrialization, fossil fuel burning, etc can cause a subtle change in global climate. Green house gases include CO 2 , N 2 O, CH 4 , and CFC etc are foremost region behind global warming leads to changing climate. Earth biodiversity is greatly affected by unusual climate leads to loss and degradation of natural resources and environment. Change in weather regime such as rainfall pattern causes flood and drought not only effects on agricultural production but also influence emergence of several cause emergence of infectious disease. Introduction of the resistance plant variety, mixed cropping, reforestation and agroforestry practices are major remedial measure to mitigate climate change which helps to uplift socioeconomic status of people. Therefore, it is an urgent need to apply intensified and scientific research on climate change-related issues, which result in improved understanding and management of plant diseases in the face of current and future climate extremes.
cited by 0
cause global warming. This is driving changes such as the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, a global rise in average sea levels, increased risk of drought Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its ocean, which covers 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, which is predominantly located within Earth's lan Hum…
cited by 0
elevated flows of freshwater from melting ice sheets. The collapse of the AMOC would be a severe climate catastrophe, resulting in a cooling of the Northern Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by humans), such as global warming, environmental degradation, and nuclear war. Others are non-anthropogenic or natural, such as meteor impacts or supervolcanoes. The impact of these scenarios can vary widely, depending on the cause and the severity of Human-caused climate change has been driven by technology since the 19th century or earlier. Projections of future climate change suggest further global warming, sea level rise, and an increase in the frequency and severity of some extreme weather events and weather-related disasters. Effects of global warming include loss of biodiversity, stresses to existing food-producing systems, increased spread of known infectious diseases such as malaria, and rapid mutation of microorganisms. This would further amplify human migration, human conflicts such as cross border immigration disputes, leading to increased human conflicts such as wars internally and externally, the breakdown of social order, reductions in GDP and economic welfare. In November 2017, a non-peer reviewed statement titled "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity" signed by 15,364 scientists from 184 countries indicated that increasing levels of greenhouse gases from use of fossil fuels, human population growth, deforestation, and overuse of land for agricultural production, particularly by farming ruminants for meat consumption, are trending in ways that forecast an increase in human misery over coming decades. An October 2017 report published in The Lancet stated that toxic air, water, soils, and workplaces were collectively responsible for nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, particularly from air pollution which was linked to deaths by increasing susceptibility to non-infectious diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer. The report warned that the pollution crisis was exceeding "the envelope on the amount of pollution the Earth can carry" and "threatens the continuing survival of human societies". Climate change may weaken the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation through increases in ocean heat content and elevated flows of freshwater from melting ice sheets. The collapse of the AMOC would be a severe climate catastrophe, resulting in a cooling of the Northern Hemisphere. It would have devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic countries, but also for other parts of the world. In late 2025, Iceland classified the potential collapse of the AMOC as a national…
2011 · cited by 0
Today, as it is commonly recognized, energy patterns lead to an unsustainable future, that concerns not only natural energy resources narrowness and scarcity but is strictly linked to greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), mainly CO2 ones. Burning fossil fuels is one of the main causes of energy natural resources depletion and climate changes. After power generation one, transportation is the second sector that considerably generates these phenomena. As per the above, policy makers efforts are more and more focused on how to effectively harmonize growing energy demand and climate change mitigation. In these scenarios, a valuable option is the increase of renewable energy sources utilization. Among these sources a relevant role is held by biofuels intending any fuel derived from biomass, living organisms (algae) or their metabolic byproducts (bovine manure). Biofuels of so called “third generation” seem to be a promising possibility to convert a low-input and high-yield no food feedstock into biofuels, mitigating the transportation sector influence on energy demand and climate changes. The objective of this paper is to investigate the role of the third generation biofuels, their impact on existing transportation sustainability and linked emergent markets.
cited by 0
raise the level of the sea 80 ft. at the north pole, while the Rev. Osmond Fisher made the rise as much as 409 ft. The melting of the ice would still
This receipt carries no identity, shared or not. Sharing publishes your connection to it, not your data.
Check your own claim
Challenge the receipt
trust me, bro: win the argument, pass the class, survive peer review.
This receipt is an automated verdict against our published method · not an opinion about any author or publication.
Terms · Privacy · How verdicts work · Dispute this receipt