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As glaciers and ice sheets continue to melt and more heat is trapped in the ocean, causing it to expand, sea-levelrise will exacerbate a more mundane problem for those who live in coastal areas: so-called “sunny-day” flooding. Every local and state official with a coastline should be deeply concerned about this.” .
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At a Columbia University symposium, physicist Edward Teller warns oil executives about risinglevels of carbon dioxide and the likelihood of global warming and sealevelrise by the end of the century. Document 1: 1959. View on DocumentCloud. How did you trip over this first?
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