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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Comes Into View | naked capitalism
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A More Troubling Picture of Sea Level Rise Comes Into View | naked capitalism

naked capitalism·Yves Smith·about 1 month ago
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Yves here. Perhaps I am not sufficiently up on research or the news, but I have not seen anywhere near as much in the way of action to address population and infrastructure exposure to sea level increase. Many large urban centers were already exposed. And the by article below argues that the crisis is coming faster than most had assumed. By Fred Pearce, a freelance author and journalist based in the U.K. He is a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360 and is the author of numerous books. Originally published at Undark Sea levels are much higher than we thought. Real-world oceans are making a mockery of flood-risk forecasts based on crude global modeling. And to make matters worse, coastal lands almost everywhere are subsiding faster than anyone realized — often many times faster than the seas are rising.…

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