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caption: "How much global average sea level will rise over the rest of this century depends on the response of the climate system to warming, as well as on future scenarios of human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases. The colored lines show the six different global average sea level rise scenarios, relative to the year 2000, that were developed by the U.S. Federal Interagency Sea Level Rise Taskforce{{< tbib '76' 'c66bf5a9-a6d7-4043-ad99-db0ae6ae562c' >}} to describe the range of future possible rise this century. The boxes on the right-hand side show the very likely ranges in sea level rise by 2100, relative to 2000, corresponding to the different RCP scenarios described in Figure 2.2. The lines above the boxes show possible increases based on the newest research of the potential Antarctic contribution to sea level rise (for example, DeConto and Pollard 2016{{< tbib '80' 'ae82c8a3-3033-4103-91e9-926a27d1fa18' >}} versus Kopp et al. 2014{{< tbib '77' '38924fa0-a0dd-44c9-a2a0-366ca610b280' >}}). Regardless of the scenario followed, it is extremely likely that global average sea level rise will continue beyond 2100. Source: adapted from Sweet et al. 2017.{{< tbib '57' '3bae2310-7572-47e2-99a4-9e4276764934' >}}
This figure was revised in June 2019. See Errata for details: https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/downloads"
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