Scientists Concerned By a Sudden Increase in the Rate of Sea Level Rise

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  There's been a sudden increase in the rate of sea level rise as measured by satellites.

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  Data suggests that, around 2012, it's suddenly accelerated and it's remained higher ever since.

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  Yeah, you know.

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  We talk about a polycrisis and all the different impacts of global heating,

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  you know, floods, droughts, wildfires, food security, ecosystem collapse and, you know, all of that stuff.

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  Yeah, loads of them.

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  And a lot of them are starting right now.

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  We see them, you know, they're in the here and now.

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  Yeah, but I can't keep them all in my head.

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  And one that kind of gets displaced is sea level rise, I feel, because putting aside the.

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  Very real problems in the South Pacific and those islands that are disappearing,

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