Sea Level Rising Toward Washington and Other Cities - ABC News
[Blakemore] The World’s Climate scientists report that…
1. About 100 years ago, after millennia of no significant change, sea level started rising, and at a fairly steady rate. Then, about 20 years ago, that rate accelerated sharply.
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“Once again, we’re ahead of schedule,” says widely respected climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University.
Mann tells ABC News that satellite measurements also show that the land may be absorbing at least some of the excess water newly lost from the ice-sheets, but that even if that is true, with the temperature only expected to rise steadily for the coming decades, such absorption by the land would at best only be masking an inevitable jump in sea level rise.
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