A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP
A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP
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Burning all fossil fuels will melt entire Antarctic ice-sheet and raise ocean by 50 metres, study shows

Oceans would rise by over 50m sinking land inhabited by a billion people and changing the face of planet Earth, say scientists

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Updated: 7:03am, 13 Sep, 2015

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A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP
A Nasa flying laboratory surveys Antarctica's ice sheet. A new study says that burning all the world’s fossil fuel reserves could push up world sea levels by more than 50 metres over thousands of years. Photo: AFP
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