Climate-change skeptics challenge DNREC projections on sea-level rise
Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, said Delaware’s SLR projection is based on good science and is consistent with many other projections.Flashback: U.S. Sea Level Rise Along East Coast To Accelerate With Gulf Stream Slowdown
“Two meters of global sea-level rise by 2100 is not out of the question,” said Mann, a prominent advocate of measures to curb carbon emissions. “One meter is a good mid-range estimate of what we might expect given business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions.”
A worldwide average of 8 inches of sea level rise since 1900 has already put millions of Americans at risk
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