The new prognostications of higher sea levels, according to Schellnhuber, are based on studies of melting Himalaya glaciers and the shrinking Greenland ice cap.

• 根据薛赫柏的说法，海平面上升高度的新前兆，是基于近年对消融中的喜马拉雅山冰河与格陵兰冰帽的研究发现。