Satellites show warming is accelerating sea level rise

Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, Medford Mail Tribune, February 13, 2018

WASHINGTON – Melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are speeding up the already fast pace of sea level rise, new satellite research shows.

At the current rate, the world’s oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 cm) higher by the end of the century compared to today, according to researchers who published in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

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