Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now

[...]
By the year 3000, the report says:

# Global warming could have more than quadrupled, with temperature rises of as much as 15C, if we continue burning fossil fuels

# Sea levels will still be rising at the end of this millennium and the total increase could reach 11.4 metres. This dwarfs estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that sea levels will rise by between 16cm and 69cm by the 2080s

# Anything more than a two-metre rise would flood large areas of Bangladesh, Florida and many low-lying cities, and displace hundreds of millions of people

# Abrupt climate changes are possible even after emissions cease because changes may be set in motion that cannot be stopped

# The acidity of the oceans will fall significantly, posing a threat to marine organisms such as corals and plankton. That, in turn, would affect the whole marine ecosystem

# The changes could be even greater than this if the climate turns out to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions than the study assumes.

The solution, the team says, is to reduce emissions to zero by 2200.

[...]