The rise in sea levels is one of the impacts of the climate crisis that are already irreversible, as the UN warns. As the oceans warm, the water rises mainly due to a phenomenon of thermal expansion, and to this is added the water that is poured into it both by the melting terrestrial glaciers and by the continental ice at the poles when it melts. It is precisely this last cause, the melting of the polar ice caps, that has been accelerating the …
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The rise in sea levels is one of the impacts of the climate crisis that are already irreversible, as the UN warns. As the oceans warm, the water rises mainly due to a phenomenon of thermal expansion, and to this is added the water that is poured into it both by the melting terrestrial glaciers and by the continental ice at the poles when it melts. It is precisely this last cause, the melting of the polar ice caps, that has been accelerating the …