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Environment & Energy

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1. it could cause sea level to rise more than 11 feet

Fri Mar 27, 2015, 04:57 AM

Mar 2015

What does the U.S. look like with an ocean that is 10 feet higher? The radically transformed map would lose 28,800 square miles of land, home today to 12.3 million people.

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/u.s.-with-10-feet-of-sea-level-rise-17428

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it could cause sea level to rise more than 11 feet Ichingcarpenter Mar 2015 #1

Not the shelves themselves - they're already floating . . . . hatrack Mar 2015 #2