A new study of the planet’s sea levels dating back 3,000 years indicates the rise during the 20th century was “extremely likely” to have been faster than during the entire period, the Washington Post reported.
Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University who led the research with nine colleagues from several U.S. and global universities, said there’s a 95 percent probability that the 20th-century rise was faster than any of the previous 27 centuries.
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The study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, blames global warming for the rise and calculates that human activity was a major factor.
The study also appears to reaffirm the so-called “hockey stick” effect, showing a relatively flat sea level change for thousands of years followed by a sharp upturn in recent times.
