Current sea level rise rates are unprecedented in recent geological history
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Current rates of sea-level rise are unprecedented in recent geological history, breaking thousands of years of relative sea-level stability.
Evidence for · 2
Real-world time-travel experiment shows ecosystem collapse due to anthropogenic climate change.
2024 · cited by 5
Paper 2 documents unusually rapid modern sea-level rise rates exceeding 10 mm/yr in the Gulf of Mexico, noting that such rapid rises present severe challenges to coastal ecosystems.
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Modern sea-level rise breaks 4,000-year stability in southeastern China.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper 5 demonstrates through geological proxies and tide gauges that the rate of global mean sea-level rise since 1900 has exceeded any century over at least the past four millennia, breaking a long period of Holocene stability.