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Water, Water Everywhere, Yet Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing Their Estimates
A study finds that more than half of American communities are basing their long-term preparations for coastal flooding on numbers that underestimate future sea level rise.
By Charlie Miller
Communities across the U.S. are underestimating future sea level rise, according to a study published in Earth’s Future, a journal from the American Geophysical Union. The study found that more than half of the 54 surveyed locations in the U.S. underestimate the upper end of future sea level rise, compared to regional projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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