 The study projects that stabilizing global temperature at 1.5°C instead of 2°C above, pre-industrial levels would reduce global mean-sea level rise by 17cm, and peak rates of rise by 1.9mm yrv1, while delaying the year of peak temperature has little long-term influence on GMSL, but reduces maximum rate of rise. This article was authored by Class Bitterman, Stefan Rammstorf, Robert E. Kopp and others.