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New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warmings
To learn about how polar ice sheets melted during an ancient era, scientists examined fossil coral reefs in the tropics.
By Bob Berwyn
A new set of detailed clues gleaned from ancient fossil reefs on the Seychelle Islands shows an increasing likelihood that human-caused warming will raise the global average sea level at least 3 feet by 2100, at the high end of the projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.