Very bad news on sea level rise:
Over the past 10 years, sea levels have risen 4.8 millimeters per year on average—a rate much higher than the previous 2 decades, driven by greenhouse gas emissions and enhanced melt from Greenland ice.
Over the past 10 years, sea levels have risen 4.8 millimeters per year on average—a rate much higher than the previous 2 decades, driven by greenhouse gas emissions and enhanced melt from Greenland ice.
https://twitter.com/ALevermann/status/1329539708024664064?s=19
More on the accelerating sea level rise here, by @voooos: sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/s…
Oddly, sea level rise doesn't spread evenly over the world. When it's Greenland melting, the decreasing gravitational pull of its ice sheet on the sea water compensates the sea level rise in the Netherlands somewhat. That'll be different when the Antarctic starts to dominate.
A sea level rise rate of 5 mm/year here in NL would already come pretty close to what our Wadden Sea can keep up with. Above that, we'll start to lose its beautiful and biodiverse tidal flats. 
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