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U.S. East Coast a Hotspot of Sea-Level Rise

Posted by timothy on from the because-of-all-the-sand-pumping-projects dept.

Harperdog writes "Nature just published this study of sea-level rise and how global warming does not force the it to happen everywhere at the same rate. Interesting stuff about what, exactly, contributes to this uneven rise, and how the East Coast of the U.S., which used to have a relatively low sea level, is now a hotspot in that the sea level there is rising faster than elsewhere."

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  1. Re:It has nothing to do with global warming by Old97 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is a giant mass of body hair in the southern hemisphere and another in the arctic that are impeding the water from redistributing itself more evenly around the globe. It'll get cleaned up when the maid comes next week. Sorry.

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