Unless they involve extreme measures, geoengineering approaches to
offset the effects of human-driven climate changes won't do much to
combat rising sea levels, an international team of scientists reports in
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.
That is because sea levels respond slowly to changes in Earth's temperature, says John Moore, a palaeoclimatologist at Beijing Normal University and lead author of the study.
"We've got this 150-year legacy of fossil-fuel [burning], land-use changes, et cetera," he says. "You can't just slam on the brakes instantaneously."
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