<p>At the upper end of that range, all ice on Earth would melt.</p>

<p>That would <em>ultimately</em> give roughly 70 metre sea level rise from melting ice alone, but it may take thousands of years before it reaches equilibrium.</p>

<p>Add a bit to that to account for the thermal expansion of sea water.</p>

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2016-11-27T00:30:13.373Z
In your ice melt calculation, are you counting only landlocked ice? Floating ice melt doesn't raise sea level.
nmtoken
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@nmtoken Sorry, still need to expand on this answer.  From memory, Greenland would lead to around 6 metre SLR and Antarctica around 60 metre.  Sea ice melt indeed does not raise sea level, however, thermal expansion does and I have much less of a feel how bad that may be compared to land ice melt.
gerrit
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Citation needed.
Matt Hall
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gerrit
<p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3036" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tokarska et al. (2016)</a>, a <em>Nature</em> article from a team of the University of Victoria, predicted a global temperature increase of 7&plusmn;2.5°C and 17.2&plusmn;2.5°C at the equator and at the poles respectively if all proven fossil carbon resources are burned (about 5 trillion tons of carbon).  </p>

<p>What would be the sea level rise with this temperature?</p>

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What would be the sea level rise if all fossil fuel resources are burned?
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# What would be the sea level rise if all fossil fuel resources are burned?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-11-23)

[Tokarska et al. (2016)](https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3036), a *Nature* article from a team of the University of Victoria, predicted a global temperature increase of 7±2.5°C and 17.2±2.5°C at the equator and at the poles respectively if all proven fossil carbon resources are burned (about 5 trillion tons of carbon).

What would be the sea level rise with this temperature?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-11-23. Score: 1

At the upper end of that range, all ice on Earth would melt.

That would *ultimately* give roughly 70 metre sea level rise from melting ice alone, but it may take thousands of years before it reaches equilibrium.

Add a bit to that to account for the thermal expansion of sea water.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: In your ice melt calculation, are you counting only landlocked ice? Floating ice melt doesn't raise sea level.  
> **username_1**: @username_2 Sorry, still need to expand on this answer.  From memory, Greenland would lead to around 6 metre SLR and Antarctica around 60 metre.  Sea ice melt indeed does not raise sea level, however, thermal expansion does and I have much less of a feel how bad that may be compared to land ice melt.  
> **username_3**: Citation needed.  

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