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Both US coasts headed for extreme sea level rise

27 June 2012

RISING seas to the right, rising seas to the left. The US will face extreme sea level rise on its east and west coasts, according to two new reports.

The news may come as a surprise in North Carolina, where legislators have been debating a bill forbidding coastal managers from predicting that sea level rises will accelerate. The bill was passed by the state’s Senate but .

Just as well: sea level rise on the US east coast is accelerating up to four times as fast as the global average. That trend was identified by …

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