Climate change and sea level rise : a review of the scientific evidence : Climate change and sea level rise : a review of the scientific evidence (English)

Sea-level rise (SLR) due to climate change is a serious global threat: the scientific evidence is now overwhelming. The rate of global sea level rise was faster from 1993 to 2003, about 3.1 mm per year, as compared to the average rate of 1.8 mm per year from 1961 to 2003 (IPCC, 2007); and significantly higher than the average rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr increase recorded by geological data over the last 3,000 years. Anthropogenic warming and SLR will...
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Dasgupta, Susmita ; Meisner, Craig.

Climate change and sea level rise : a review of the scientific evidence : Climate change and sea level rise : a review of the scientific evidence (English). Environment department papers ; no. 118. Climate change series Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/460031468313549525

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