"Dr Hoffman said perhaps the most significant implication of their research was that current computer models of climate change were failing to pick up on the warming 125,000 years ago. The study suggests that in the long term, sea level will rise six metres at least in response to the warming we are causing. "Professor Richard Allan, a climatologist at Reading University, said: "The result that present global sea surface temperatures are indistinguishable from those at the last interglacial 125,000 years ago is extremely worrying since sea levels were six to nine metres higher then compared to present." He continued: "It indicates that we may very well already be committed to several more metres of sea level rise when the climate system catches up with the carbon dioxide we've already pumped into the atmosphere. The important thing to recognise is that the climate system hasn't yet come into equilibrium with the increase in carbon dioxide, so it is misleading to compare the historical sea level rise we've seen so far with the sea level rise 125,000 years ago, because the latter indicates the full response [to the warming effect]."

Source: Times of India January 21, 2017 15:00 UTC