Boston Globe — A Brown researcher helped write the stunning UN climate change report…

A surfer rode the waves off Point Judith in Rhode Island last year as the surf crashed against a jetty in the background.STAN GROSSFELD/ GLOBE STAFF

August 9, 2021

By Brian Amaral — RHODE ISLAND — A Brown researcher helped write the stunning UN climate change report. Here’s what it could mean for R.I.

A Providence resident and Brown University professor was one of the key authors in a landmark United Nations report warning of the catastrophic consequences of climate change.

Professor Baylor Fox-Kemper, an oceanographer and mathematical modeler, was one of the three coordinating lead authors on the chapter dealing with sea level rise. The news on that front is sobering: Even under the best-case scenario in which society slashes carbon emissions, sea levels are expected to rise one to two feet by 2100. If we don’t act, they could rise two to three feet. Under worst-case scenarios, six feet of rise is not out of the question.

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