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Sea Level Rise Accelerating Faster Than Thought
2015-01-16 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The acceleration of the rate of sea level rise over the past couple decades is even higher than scientists had thought, according to a new study that uses a novel method to estimate the global rise of the oceans. The reason? The rate of rise across the 20th century has actually been overestimated -- by as much as 30 percent -- meaning there's been a bigger jump in sea level rise rates from the beginning of the 1900s to now than previously thought. "The acceleration over the 20th century is...
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