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The Rise In Sea Levels Could Be Almost Double Previous Estimates

by The Daily Eye Team April 7 2016, 1:22 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secs

Sea levels could rise an additional 39 inches by the end of the century — almost doubling previous estimates of the total potential increases in sea levels — due to the melting of Antarctic ice from climate change, according to a new study.To put that into context, such an amount of extra ocean water would have put Hurricane Sandy's maximum flood height at the tip of Manhattan in 2012 at more than 17 feet, while parts of Hurricane Katrina's surge along in New Orleans in 2005 would have been tallerthan 23 feet.

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