Mother Nature Network: 7 monuments, cities and world treasures we could lose to rising sea levels
These are just a sample of the things we could lose if temperatures rise 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 200 years.
Every year the worldwide sea level rises about 3 mm. That doesnt sound like much, just a little over a 1/10 of an inch, but even that small rise spread out over the entire ocean is a lot of water. Multiply that over years and decades, factor in an increased rate of rise (thanks to our growing addiction...