summary of my article

I read an article from the “Electronic Publication Information Canter From Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research” about the changes in sea level. Since the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago the sea level has risen by 120 m. The water has risen more rapidly in the last 6,000 years by 10 mm per year. The article made a point of saying that there has not been a significant increase in the 20th century. Some of the factors that are affecting present day sea level change are thermal expansion and ice caps and glacier melting. Ice caps and glacier melting contribute a rise in seawater by .2 to .4 mm a year. The article project for the next 100 years that there will be continue thermal expansion by .11 to .43 m per year and the glacier contribution will be .01 to .23 m per year. The article did not really go into the effect greenhouse gas had on the melting ice caps or glaciers. It did say that if greenhouse gas concentrations were stabilized the sea level would still continue to rise.