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Sea level rise: Drowning in numbers

2013-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: IMAGINE your job is to protect London from surging seas. In one way it is easy: unlike most coastal cities, London has a formidable flood defence system in the form of the Thames Barrier, capable of protecting it from all but the highest storm surges. But as the seas rise, the risk of the barrier being breached will increase steadily. With a 1-metre rise in local sea level, London will get flooded every 10 years. So when do you start building new flood defences, and how high do you make them? The...

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