In an article this week in The Times-Picayune, environmental reporter Bob Marshall describes how "New research shows oceans are warming about 40 percent faster on average than previously thought, a finding researchers said could contribute a foot to sea level rise by 2100 because it could mean thermal expansion of oceans will accelerate. That’s alarming news for Louisiana’s effort to save its sinking bottom third and could result in dramatic changes to projects in its coastal master plan, which is based on those previous sea level rise projections."
The article further notes that "A new study found the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet, one of the major contributors to sea level rise, is happening much faster than previously thought, and may now be unstoppable, resulting in a more rapid acceleration in sea level rise than predicted over the next 20 years. That’s terrible news for all coastal communities, but a potential stopper for Louisiana’s current plans because they are based on projections that existed just two years ago."
Read this earth-shaking article in full here.