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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilya Maclean" data-source="post: 1599287" data-attributes="member: 46774"><p>Not many predicted a 8m rise and no serious scientists really believed the circulation would stop rather than slow. Interestingly, if anything, projections of sea-level rise have gone up rather than down recently. It's just a shame that most people don't read the small print of the IPCC predictions (i.e. that estimates are based on the thermal expanion component only and exclude feedbacks and melting ice sheets - see page 14 of the summary assessment report if memory serves me correctly). There's a fairly recent issue of Science in which several papers were published suggesting that sea-level rise in the order of metres is likely.</p></blockquote><p></p>