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Sea level rise refers to the average increase in the water level of the Earth’s oceans. As ice sheets and glaciers melt, they add more water. A huge toolkit of increasingly sophisticated instruments, deployed across the oceans, on polar ice, and in orbit, reveals significant changes among globally interlocking factors that are driving sea levels higher. In the last decades, the reality of a rising sea due to the impact of human activities on the geological scale has gained wide scientific acceptance: Earth’s seas are rising as a direct result of a changing climate.
Ocean temperatures are increasing, leading to ocean expansion. You’d think that sea level rise would be constant across all the world’s major waterways, right? I mean, it’s like when you fill a bathtub with more water,…
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