Sea Levels Are Surging at Faster and Faster Rates as Antarctica and Greenland Melt, Satellite Data..
Source: Newsweek
Sea Levels Are Surging at Faster and Faster Rates as Antarctica and Greenland Melt, Satellite Data Reveals
Sea levels aren’t just steadily rising—they’re accelerating, according to a new assessment based on 25 years of satellite data. The findings, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, confirm what climate projections have already told us. The results reveal that sea level rise has been accelerating for the past 25 years, rather than steadily rising the same amount each year.
Assuming the acceleration rate stays the same, which the lead author said is unlikely, sea levels will surge 26 inches by 2100 from climate change alone.
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These so-called eyes on the Earth revealed that sea level rise is not steadily rising at 0.1 inch every year, but rather, that increase is increasing, itself—by 0.003 inches each year. Though these numbers sound small, tiny increases across the globe over several decades can result in devastating consequences from sea level rise on coastal cities alone. Storm surges and salt water intrusion into aquifers where some communities get their drinking water are just two examples.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/sea-level-rise-has-rapidly-accelerated-1992-melting-ice-and-its-not-803326
Good thing the Hillary Clinton administration is on this. Wait, no it isn't because Russian bots affected just enough people to not feel good about her as a candidate.
Hope you like drinking salt water and letting your relatives who live on the coast to move in with you in the coming decades. And the wars that'll be fought over it because this issue isn't going away, it's getting closer and closer, timewise.
Dammit!
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Mother-in-law said to give you a heart! 
Yeah, the fentanyl might be necessary for all of us. 
Bless you for keeping an eye on her. I'm a nurse, and I know that looking after someone sick is not an easy calling for just anyone.
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Most of my relatives are conservative to one degree or another. I'm the only one in the family who isn't, so it's nice to be in a stress-free place with like-minded people. 
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