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10°F) this century. This is still so new, and so immense, that it’s not yet
widely publicized or understood.
3. Faster sea-level rise this century. The Fourth IPCC Report projected
sea-level increase of about one to two feet this century, due to warmer
water taking up more space, but excluded the effects of ice melting in,
well, nearly everywhere. This made the IPCC’s projection a gross under-
estimate, and recent work is projecting a sea-level increase of one to two
meters this century. Sea-level rise directly threatens infrastructure and
greatly worsens the effects of hurricanes, “normal” storms, “freak” high
tides, and other ...