Tag: sea levels
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Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea Level Rise for Decades
Credit: Joe Raedle Getty Images The numbers didn’t add up. Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed , decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise was holding steady—or even declining. Now, after puzzling over this discrepancy for years, scientists have identified its source: a problem…
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How climate change could threaten the water supply for millions of Californians
When it comes to California and climate change, the predictions are staggering: coastal airports besieged by floodwaters, entire beaches disappearing as sea levels rise. Another disturbing scenario is brewing inland, in the sleepy backwaters of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It’s a threat to the Delta’s ecosystem that could swallow up a significant portion of California’s…