Sea level rise is accelerating; how much it costs is up to us

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Important new research shows that sea levels are rising at unprecedented rates, and will have tremendous costs if we don’t slow them…

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This mind-boggling study shows just how massive sea level rise really is, The Washington Post (03-12-2016)
As our planet continues to warm, coastlines worldwide will retreat inland — in the long run, maybe by a lot. It seems doubtful that we can defend all of the many coastal zones that will be at risk. But in a new study just out in the open access journal Earth System Dynamics, scientists have actually published an idea for doing that and provided some calculations regarding the scale of what it would take…

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